This is the fifth annual Nuit des Vieux Millésimes and festival, two wonderful opportunities to explore older vintages of Swiss wines. The Night, 3 March, features restaurants with special menus designed around the older wines, for a set price. Details will be added to the Night’s web page in coming days. The festival and Night […]
Archives for February 2016
Swiss fine dining galore in coming months (update)
I’m suddenly awash in invitations and news about new, newly improved and improving hotels and restaurants in Switzerland – and this at a time when everyone has been worrying about tourism and the high Swiss franc. Clearly, some of us are expected to keep traveling and eating and spending our money, so some of us […]
Ontario winery’s Vidal marketing challenge
Ontario’s Vidal wine has a poor reputation after years as a mainly cheap, sweet dessert wine. Two brothers who have improved the wine, starting by reducing the yield in the vineyard, now have what sounds like a really nice crisp and fruity dry white wine. It sells out at the shop, but in restaurants and […]