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Old eggs, snakes in booze: extreme food tasting comes to Morges

21/11/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Everyone was interested in the aphrodisiacs.

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Aliments bizarres, taste buds, tasting, Thanksgiving, weird food

World Merlot gold medals go to wines from four continents

21/11/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The first-ever Mondial du Merlot, a global wine competition organized in southern Switzerland, has just awarded gold medals to the top 19 Merlot wines from the 278  entered, from 24 countries. Merlot is one of the most widely grown grapes in the world. “I discovered wines with profoundly different characters, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Lugano, Merlot, Mondial du Merlot, Ticino, wine, wine competition

More trains between Geneva and Lausanne in mid-December

21/11/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Good news for the Lake Geneva region: the CFF rail company will be adding more trains on the Bern-Zurich and Lausanne-Geneva lines, starting 14 December when the new 2009 schedule goes into effect, with 5.5% more kilometres of rail travel on offer.

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: 2009 train schedule, CFF, rail, Swiss trains, travel

The chemical joys of wine

11/11/2008 by Ellen Wallace

I have mixed reactions when I read in the space of a minute that a) there are things in red wine that are good for me (hooray!) and b) the chemical reaction is therefore going to be reproduced in a drug, to be put to wider user (oh no! but wait, that must be good […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: fermentation, Swiss news, wine, wine chemistry, wine yeasts

Switzerland names top winemaker, best wine 2008

07/11/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s top winemaker is oenologue Madeleine Gay, cellarmaster at the country’s largest cooperative, Provins, in Sion. She was awarded the honour of “Swiss winemaker of the year” Friday evening at the annual Swiss Wine Night in Zurich, when the country’s finest wines are named by the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Madeleine Gay, Prix Bio Suisse, Provins, Swiss Winemaker of the Year, Swiss wines, Vinissimo, wine

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