GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – More than 120 restaurants have joined a new wine & dine project to encourage the public to discover, or re-discover Swiss wines, especially those from areas beyond their own corner of the country. The first Swiss Wine Week will run from 28 November to 6 December, throughout Switzerland. […]
Archives for November 2013
Festivins
Small but good wine fair organized by 30 young wine-lovers, near Fribourg.
Wine pick: Domaine de Mourchon Séguret
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / FRENCH WINES – Red wine, French, Côte du Rhône. Domaine de Mourchon “Grande Réserve” 2011, AOC Séguret These are our neighbours, just a couple hours down the Rhone river from Geneva, where the wines start to become bigger, richer, more powerful. One of the rising stars, as French wine media are […]
Vaud “terroir” specialty shop, 2nd one opens
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Twice as good! The wonderful shop La Halle in Lausanne, with top quality fresh produce and specializing in the best terroir products around, now has a sister shop in Pully. The two are now part of the new Terre Vaudoise label, a project set up by the Vaud association Prométerre, whose work […]
Zurich airport passenger tax down slightly
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The airport tax charged each commercial airline passenger will be lowered slightly in 2014, with the new rates in effect until 2017, the Swiss Federal Aviation Office said Friday, but no one is likely to be happy over the new tax. The federal office was called in when the airport and the […]