The weather was glorious, perfect for just about any gardening chores, but sometimes you have to stop gardening and take a day or two off, hang out, travel the way non-gardeners do. Here are some of the things creatures of various sorts in Geneva, Vaud and Valais were doing on the first real warm-weather weekend […]
Archives for April 2008
Losing a Child: Baby Sunshine
[Ed. note: by Jared Bloch, published on GenevaLunch in 2008] Tuesday, My daughter wakes up lazily – she’s on vacation – and calls to me from her bedroom. “Dad come here, come here before you go. I had a dream of the baby,” she tells me. “She was born and she was a girl. […]
FEATURE / Arvinis: Women and wine work their magic
The Arvinis wine festival in Morges is one of the main events of the Swiss wine calendar. Links to related GenevaLunch articles appear at the end. Morges, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Coraline de Wurstemberger greets a guest to her Domaine Les Dames de Hautecour in fine pearls and soft gray wool. A tall, elegant and […]
Arvinis wine festival puts out welcome mat to first-timers
Morges, Vaud, Switzerland – Arvinis, the wine festival that opened Wednesday evening in Morges, is a great place to start learning about Swiss wine in particular, or about wine in general, suggests Yves Paquier, who offers a beginner’s course in wine tasting at Arvinis. English-speakers in particular can use the festival as a springboard to […]
Swiss wine consumption up, Swiss-made wines take lead
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss wine producers at the opening today of Arvinis in Morges will be smiling, with the government announcing Tuesday the first upturn in wine consumption in several years (search for “l’année viticole 2007”). Figures for 2007 show a 3.6% overall increase in wine consumed, but with a rise of 5.7% for […]