Beer tasting, music and events in celebration of Amstein’s 40th Anniversary.
160 new jobs in Verbier where the news is the interviews
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss hotels are joining the rest of Swiss business in a frenzy of innovation – forget cozy charms of the past, with Verbier as the latest to join a trend of hot hotel options. The Valais resort this winter will see the opening of a sizzling new extreme travel hotel that will […]
Swiss love their trains, but cars even more so
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The average Swiss person spends more than 20,000 hours a year moving around in cars or using public transport, some 37 km per day per person, according to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The figures are part of a report, “Mobility and Transport 2013”, published Tuesday 20 August. But don’t call it […]
Summer pauses: pie, brands, chocolate muffins
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It’s a holiday 15 August in canton Valais and in Evian they are celebrating Liberation Day while up in the Jura they’re celebrating the middle of summer, so you have plenty of excuses to take the day easy. Here are a few suggestions, besides the usual go to the beach or pool […]
Memoire & Friends wine-tasting day
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – This has grown, in just 5 years, into one of Switzerland’s best opportunities to taste Swiss wines, particularly for people in the east of the country: 170 producers from the 6 wine regions plus the “fifth Switzerland” (Swiss abroad). The Memoire des Vins Suisse group, with many of the country’s top winemakers, created the exhibition and sales day to invite other producers they consider good for a professionals tasting day that was open to the public.
This year it moves from an exhibition-sales event for professionals to a public affair with no obligation to buy. As a result, a modest entry fee of CHF15 (order online) is being charged, to limit it to wine fans. For those who’ve attended the many cantonal and private open days earlier in the year, this is an opportunity to taste wines that are now more mature, with more time in bottle.