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Archives for January 2008

Swiss train stations to stop selling booze after 10

29/01/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – The CFF rail company will stop allowing the sale of alcohol after 22:00 in  shops and kiosks, starting 1 April 2008. Bars and restaurants in the stations are not affected by the new rule. The company took the measure independently in order to improve safety and cleanliness in the stations, […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Food and Drink, Swiss news, travel

When the French praise the Swiss, they mean wine

28/01/2008 by Ellen Wallace

The Swiss have known for some time now that their wines have grown up, with many excellent bottles that now stand out among among the world’s best. The French have taken longer to come around to the same conclusion, but the new issue of La Revue du vin de France, one of the French wine […]

Filed Under: Food & dining

Lawmakers want to raise drinking age to stop binge drinking

15/01/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Switzerland (24 Heures, Fre) – Binge drinking has reached Swiss teenagers, 24 Heures reports, with higher numbers of young people treated in emergency rooms and concerned lawmakers wanting to raise the legal drinking age. The latest moves come from Zug and Bâle-Campagne, with proposals to raise the age for purchasing all alcoholic drinks to 18. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Food and Drink, Swiss news

Swiss wine harvest 2007: high quality, modest harvest

11/01/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss grape harvest in 2007 was very good in terms of quality, with a quantity that was lower than the 10-year average used by Swiss federal agriculture authorities (FOAG (search in French: l’année viticole 2007)), they confirmed Thursday. Experts predicted as early as August 2007 that it would be a […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Food and Drink, Swiss news

Oh so sweet, those fine old grapes!

08/01/2008 by Ellen Wallace

In mid-December on a beautiful afternoon as the sun was sinking I took a series of photos of snowy vineyards above Sierre, in the Valais. Several of the vines were still covered with netting and the grapes sat cool but still relatively plump on the vines, waiting for the late harvest. Photos: Valais, Switzerland, 15 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Cave Les Fils Maye, Château de Villa, d, Grain Noble ConfidenCiel, Marie-Therese Chappaz, Robert Taramarcaz Domaine des Muses, Rouvinez, Sierre

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