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Archives for October 2011

Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2011 named

25/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Top awards for Swiss wines go to mix of new and old producers BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Winemaker of the Year for 2011 is Diego Mathier from Salquenen/Salgesch (cellar: Nouveau Salquenen) in canton Valais who previously won the coveted award in 2007. He was named at a gala dinner Tuesday night 25 October in […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2011, award, awards, Begnins, best Swiss wines, blind tastings, competition, Diego Mathier, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Maurice Zufferey, most points overall, organic wines, Reynald Parmelin, Salgesch, Salquenen, Swiss Winemaker of the Year

The next time your Swiss train is late, consider this

21/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

BERN, SWITZERLAND – The main reaction was somber silence when the train conductor announced that the train from Lucerne would be arriving 14 minutes late in Bern. In German and French he said that the lateness was due to a “person incident” rail-speak for an accident that is most likely a suicide, someone jumping or […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Bern, lateness, Lucerne, person incidents, suicide, Swiss rail, trains, Zofingen

Geneva takes chocolate dipping seriously

19/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Long before I ever moved to the land of milk and chocolate, I read Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and dreamt of endless supplies of the brown elixir. In fact, I caught more than one culprit dipping their spoon into a chocolate fountain on day two of the Salon International […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: chocolate, Food & drink

Swiss train trial for hybrid locomotives succeeds

18/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A 4,000 ton annual reduction in CO2 and a significant improvement in maintenance costs: Swiss cargo trains will have 30 hybrid locomotives starting in 2013, the CFF rail company has announced. The new engines are made by Stadler Winterthur, whose director, Hartmut Dietrich, calls them “the most modern and most innovative on the […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: cargo, CFF, CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, hybrid locomotives, Swiss rail, trains

Pinot Noir 2010 Domaine La Colombe, Raymond Paccot

13/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Wine tasting notes, Swiss red wines wine video, red Red wine, dry Grape variety: Pinot Noir Winery: La Colombe Location: Féchy, La Côte, canton Vaud Price at the winery: CHF10.50/11.30 View this wine reviewed in French by Laurent Probst and in German by Gabriel Tinguely Complete list of GenevaLunch Swiss wine videos, produced by RomanDuVin […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2010, Féchy, La Colombe, La Cote, Pinot Noir, Raymond Paccot, Swiss wine tasting notes, Vaud

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