Photo, top: an unusal feature at the Mondial du Pinot Noir this year was a truly blind tasting, with small groups of judges led into a darkened room where they tasted wines without the benefit of seeing them. Photo, below: much is learned about a wine simply by looking at it in the glass, watching […]
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Burgundy wakes up to Swiss wine competition
Sierre, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The only Pinot Noir (single grape) international wine competition, the Mondiale du Pinot Noir, kicks off in Sierre, Valais today, with Burgundy for the first time participating on a large scale. Burgundy has long dominated the market and been synonymous in the public’s mind with Pinot Noir, the grape responsible […]
FEATURE / St Prex as medieval backdrop to 21st c festival
Editor’s note: GenevaLunch is a media sponsor for the event, which takes place in GL’s home town. View our "Moods of St Prex" collection of 50 photos by Ellen Wallace, part of the GL photo album. Photo, left: St Prex’s main street and, through the arches, the roman church: concerts will take place in both […]
Geneva wine course coming up
The wine season is starting soon, with summer tasting sessions in villages giving way to fairs like Vinea in Sierre, several competitions, culminating in the Swiss Wine Grand Prix in Bern in October. The Swiss wine harvest, with the smell of ripe grapes hanging over villages, starts in September and runs to November in some […]
Swiss roads dept. promises to study Vallorbe/Orbe semi-autoroute
Vallorbe and Bern, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – Federal authorities say that in 2008 they will reconsider the need for a median strip metal divider on the semi-autoroute that runs between Orbe and Vallorbe, although the stretch meets national safety standards. An accident last Friday’ that killed two people is the eighth in six years. […]