A group of wineries in the Morges area in canton Vaud has created an offer to make it easier for visitors to sample wines. English-speakers, you will be happy to know they are doing this in English as well as French – I’ve been told they would love to welcome more of the international population […]
Archives for August 2014
Getting an ear for Alsatian wine
I simply love this! Alsace’s lexicon for vine and wine terms, with audio, makes me want to head right up there to sample the wines. Not that it would take much encouragement for me to go there, but this is a great little tool for wine tourists. Thank you, André Deyrieux, at Wine Tourism in […]
Ye olde blogs, a tribute
Yesterday I had a brief conversation with a man who mentioned he’d started blogging in 2005, when almost no one was doing it because blogging platforms were such a new thing. It got me thinking about those early days, so I went back and had a look at what I was writing and photographing on […]
Business news roundup: China deals, Russians, wine & beer
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Wine consumption remained stable in 2013 and beer consumption slipped a bit, figures released by Bern Wednesday show. But the changes are so small that a rainy spring and autumn could be the explanation, according to the Federal Agriculture Office. Foreign wines lost some ground to local wine production. The Swiss in […]