Michel Rochat, the head of the École Hotelière de Lausanne, has been named president of the Office des Vins Vaudois, the canton’s wine promotion body. He succeeds Pierre Keller as of January 2019. Keller will have served in the part-time post for 8 years when he leaves; he has heavily promoted Vaud wines outside Switzerland, […]
Gin mimosas, nothing to do with the flower
Apparently this good alternative to champagne for breakfast has nothing to do with the flower. A shame; winter mimosas, nearly wild along Spain’s Mediterranean shore, are lovely.
Hunting for great Arvines (Bern)
It’s hard to stay focused at a good wine fair. I went to Bern recently to visit Vinumrarum, an annual weekend wine fair for independent family wineries. I decided to focus on Petite Arvine wines. The more people who make this increasingly popular wine (Valais produced 1.9 million kg Arvine grapes in 2016, about 100,000 […]
Vineglorious! Swiss wines book – super holidays deal
20% off for a superb gift, CHF19.20, or CHF18 each if you buy 2, plus shipping & handling. Normal price CHF24. BUY NOW Offer valid from noon Friday 8 December until noon Tuesday 12 December (order-received time counts), plus shipping & handling. Also available in bookstores in French-speaking Switzerland. Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines: buy it […]
Ice wine is kin, but not twin, to late harvest wines
Wine-searcher has just published a helpful “Complete Guide to Ice Wine“. I’m often asked if Switzerland’s justly famous sweet late harvest wines are ice wines, because people from elsewhere assume that with snowy Alpine peaks this is a cold country and the grapes freeze on the vines. The term “vin de glacier” adds confusion to […]