The lakeside village of Lutry brings out its beautiful large old wooden grapepress for Saturday’s village harvest, as canton Vaud begins to bring in the grapes. The pressing takes place in front of the village chateau (parking nearby) during the afternoon and is open to the public.
An aperitif with last year’s wine starts at 17:00.
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / SWISS WINES – Full name: Berner Rosenapfelbrand im Barrique, a 40% apple eau-de-vie made from local Bernese rose winter apples. Remarkably fruity and smooth brandy, perfect digestive after game or dark meats and among the best Swiss eaux-de-vie that I’ve had. Urs Hecht is the master distiller at small regional family […]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A German web site has been published information about highway and road radar locations in Switzerland, keeping it continually updated thanks to Swiss drivers who send information to the site, reports 20 Minutes. Publishing or publicly sharing in any way information about radars has been illegal in Switzerland since January, but Swiss […]
Big annual wine industry fair in Zurich, open to public. 60th anniversary in 2013. Note: different hours at weekends.
Apples, pears, honey and a myriad of other Savoyard gastronomy treasures, music and more.