Lausanne-Vevey trains back on track GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – News from western Switzerland: Monsanto continues to woo Syngenta The possibility of an agrochemical giant dimmed slightly during the week when Syngenta turned down a buyout offer from Monsanto, but the US firm is expected to make a new bid for Basel-based Syngenta within weeks. “The St. […]
Archives for May 2015
Check out the fine Valais sunshine today
Perfect weather for the third and final day of the Valais winery open house weekend. If you’re thinking about coming to Valais for the winery open houses the weather is now absolutely spectacular – listen to those happy birds singing! A video posted by Ellen Wallace (@ellenwallace) on May 15, 2015 at 11:07pm PDT
Valais wine days, extreme weather bonus
Three days of open house for wineries in canton Valais, and three kinds of weather: the best to sample the huge variety of wines made in this largest of Swiss wine regions! Thursday 14 May was gloriously sunny, balmy weather that was perfect for tasting the new vintage white wines, from aperitif Fendants to Heida […]
Belle Epoque “Italie” steamboat overhaul begins
107 year-old Lake Geneva treasure to return year-round by 2017 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Belle Epoque steamboat “Italie”, much loved by fans of the century-old fleet on Lake Geneva, is starting a 16-month refurbishment. The makeover is an eloquent thumbs-up to efforts by a group, ABVL (Association des amis des bateaux à vapeur du Léman), […]
Geneva’s new kosher wine on sale soon
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva now has a kosher wine, produced by David Sossauer at the Domaine des Pendus in Peney. Sossauer says he was intrigued by the project, the brainchild of wine merchant David Ouanounou, according to the Tribune de Genève, which devotes several lines to the elaborate procedure needed to harvest the grapes and make […]