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Swiss wines tasted in August: my top picks

14/11/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Remember when we were watering the vines? Oh, for those warm, dry days of summer, early August, now that the first snow is falling in the Swiss Alps! I’ve been reviewing my notes for wines I enjoyed at two August events, to share some of my favourites with you. The August wine-tastings were part of […]

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Vaud tallies results of 5 year pilot wine tourism project

22/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Switzerland has been a laggard for wine tourism, which has been successfully expanding in France and Italy for several years. France, for example, went from 7.5 million wine tourists in 2009 to more than 10 million in 2016 – with an increase of 40% more foreign tourists. Wineries everywhere are suffering from greater competition and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aigle, Association Vaud d'Oenotourism, Association Vaud d'oOenotourism, Chateau de Chillon, Henri Badoux, Swiss Wine Tourism Awards, Switzerland wine tourism, Valais wine tourism, Vaud wine tourism

Swiss and other wine news: great harvest, autumn fun, future of fairs

27/09/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Golden harvest of 2018 Grapes are in the air, literally, with the Swiss harvest moving out of the vineyards and into the cellars, where fermentation is adding pungent aromas to wine villages across the country. Facebook and Instagram images from wineries abound now, most of them featuring the finest grapes we’ve seen in a few […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aigle, Arvinis, Badoux, Cave Alain Emery, Chasselas, Chateau de Vaas, Cornalin, Domaine de la Colombe, Domaine des Chevaliers, Fête des vignerons, International Best of Wine Tourism, Marie-Jo Valente, Maurice Zufferey, Pinot Noir, Semaine du goût, Swiss harvest 2018, Swiss Wine Tourism Prize, Vinea, Vinum Montis

Swiss wine tourism comes of age

24/06/2018 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

This could be a watershed year for Swiss wine, the year when wine tourism comes of age. Lausanne in March became one of the world’s 10 Great Wine Capitals, a network of wine centres that is behind the five-year-old International Best of Wine Tourism awards. Switzerland’s first awards, whose winners compete in the international awards, […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Amigne on the road, Arvinis, Best of Wine Tourism Awards, canton Vaud, Expovino, Féchy, Festival du Chasselas, Fête des Vignerons 2019, Geneva, Great Wine Capitals, Musée Valaisan du vin, Open cellar days, Pfyn-Finges Nature Park, Russin, Suisse oenotourisme, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss Wine Tourism, Vétroz, Vinea, Vinorama, Visit French Wine

Swiss wine news: Geneva, Vaud official “selections” winners named

22/06/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Cantons Geneva and Vaud this week announced the winners of their “Selections”, the official wine competitions that each year name the best local wines in several categories. For Geneva, the wines are blind-tasted by a group of professionals trained by the cantonal wine office; the winners then represent the canton at several other wine competitions, […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: boar prize, Canton Vaud wine competition 2018, Château La Batie, Clos des Pins, Dizerens, Domaine de Chantegrive, Domaine de la Croix, Domaine de la Planta, Domaine de la Vigne Blanche, Domaine du Paradis, Eric Schopfer, fox prize, Geneva cantonal wine competition 2018, Le Champagnoux, Martial Neyroud, Pierre-Yves Poget, press prize, Sélection de Genève, Sélection Vins Vaudois, Swiss Wine Promotion prize, vignoble de la République et Canton de Genève, Yvan Parmelin

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