I left a lengthy comment to a post, “The World is Squared: Episode 1, Switzerland”, after someone requested some recommendations for red wines he can buy at the Coop. The best Swiss wines are not found there – the cut taken by Coop doesn’t make it worthwhile for a lot of small but very good […]
Archives for August 2014
Geneva to get blinking night stoplights
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva drivers will soon find it’s quicker and easier to drive through much of the city at night, with 42 of the 456 traffic lights shifting to blinking orange lights at night. Of these, 15 will change once buses and trams stop running while the other 27 will move to orange from […]
A9 around Chillon: 2 lanes until Oct 2015
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Prepare for another full year of roadworks above the Chateau de Chillon, with lower speed limits for the duration. The new state of the art fiber optics concrete is being poured on the Chillon viaduct on the A9 autoroute this week. But the complexity of the work has added a year to […]
Tasting Swiss wines in Zurich
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Every August the one-day Memoire & Friends wine tasting in Zurich pulls in a large crowd of industry professionals for an afternoon, followed by hundreds of wine-lovers as they head home from work. This year the event attracted 170 wine producers from Switzerland, including a small group of Swiss wineries from abroad. […]
Grapes: great so far, fingers crossed
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva is the latest area to declare its grapes very healthy, as we head into the critical month of September. Cantonal authorities have been testing the wine grapes and checking their health in the past few days. Guillaume Potterat, an oenologist with canton Geneva, told newspaper GHI that it’s too early to […]