GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Little brown pouches are appearing on vineyards in Switzerland at the moment, a reminder of the ongoing greening of the wine grape business. Switzerland remains a world leader in the use of pheromones instead of insecticides, an ecological solution to pests in vineyards. The system is based on large-scale diffusion in vineyards […]
Bug battleground this Swiss spring
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Time to check your stock of insect repellant and check the leg-sock gap when you’re out hiking, for the spring of 2014 promises to be a battleground for bugs. Bugs after your garden plants, bugs after you: most of them are enjoying a relatively warm spring after a mild winter that killed […]
Breaking news: Geneva-bound LX437 catches fire
London City Airport closed for two hours after engine explosion and fire Four people slightly injured GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Passengers safely evacuated Swiss flight LX437 from London City Airport Thursday around 15:00 after a fire broke out. The airport was closed for a little over an hour, according to City Airport, as a result of […]
Giant yodelling fete planned for Davos
Largest ever event for the Graubuenden resort, 3-6 July BERN, SWITZERLAND – Start warming your yodel chords if you want to join the crowd this summer in Davos for the Swiss Federal Yodeling Festival, expected to draw some 9,000 yodellers, Alpine horn blowers and flag throwers. Plans for the festival were announced at a press […]
Wine writer takes stock of Vaud, Swiss wines
I spent some good time with English wine writer Louise, from the south of France, at Vinocamp in Lausanne last Saturday. Here’s her take on Switzerland, Vaud and the vines here. I think her effort to de-mystify the complex and incomprehensible system of grand crus, AOCs and wine labels in general in Switzerland is quite […]