Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss carried on drinking wine in much the same way in 2008 as in 2007, consuming 2.78 million hectolitres (1 hectolitre = 100 litres or 22 gallons) of wine, roughly 36 bottles per person for the year for the permanent population of 7.7 million. But they drank less red wine […]
leshop.ch: A luxury that fits everybody’s pocket
Ed. note: We’ve now moved this post to Jonell Galloway’s food blog on GenevaLunch, “The Rambing Epicure.” You’ll find this and much more on buying, cooking, eating at home and dining out from our food expert! Be sure to visit soon.
Bordeaux in hand, the wine writer is back
Winter is a lovely time for drinking wine, and let’s be clear, drinking is not the same as tasting. We’ve had guests in the mountains, where we opened big hearty red wines from Spain to have with roasts, and other friends with whom we compared fendants from Valais over raclette (cheese melted over potatoes) next […]
Swiss wine season opens: Arvinis, Geneva wineries open days, cantons’ wine calendars
Morges, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – ‘Tis the season: to taste, to buy, to settle down for a pleasant glass of Swiss wine. The winelovers’ season will be up and running this week with the opening Wednesday 24 April of the Arvinis wine fair in Morges, which annually welcomes some 20,000 visitors. Special guests for 2009 are […]
Easter travel kept Geneva airport, Lake Geneva busy
Geneva, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Economic crisis or not, we still love to travel, as traffic at Geneva’s Cointrin International Airport made it clear over the Easter holidays: 84,000 passengers flew in or out Easter weekend, the same as for Easter 2008. The other busy travel area was Lake Geneva, with the opening of the […]