Weather, poor harvest lead to sharp drop BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss production of eaux-de-vie fell sharply in 2013, thanks to “capricious weather and a poor fruit harvest” that was due only in part to the cyclical nature of fruit, the federal Alcohol Office said Monday. Overall, 11,583 hectolitres of pure alcohol (100%) were distilled, well […]
Archives for February 2014
Swiss tourism rosier in 2013
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss tourism had a turn-around year in 2013, with a 2.5 percent increase in the number of overnight stays over 2012. The upswing in tourism last year didn’t quite rival 2010, before the impact of the global economic crisis began to be felt, but it was close. Foreigners accounted for close to […]
Burgundy winemaker taken to court over insecticide refusal
Republished from Ellen’s Wine World GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine producers in Switzerland are carefully watching a courthouse in Burgundy, just a small mountain range (Jura) away, where French winemaker Emmanuel Giboulot appeared before a Dijon judge Monday 24 February. Giboulet is accused of not following an agriculture department order issued to all wine grape growers […]
Burgundy winemaker in court Monday over pesticide refusal
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine producers in Switzerland are carefully watching a courthouse in Burgundy, just a small mountain range (Jura) away, where French winemaker Emmanuel Giboulot appeared before a Dijon judge Monday 24 February. Giboulot is accused of not following an agriculture department order issued to all wine grape growers in Burgundy to use […]
Swiss Ermitage aka Marsanne, circa 2014
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I tripped over a wine book chapter written in 1987 this morning, from a book called “Search for Good Wine” by John Hailman. What a great way to see how very much Swiss wines have changed in the past 25-plus years, but more than that, to see how much wine writing has […]