Title: Geneve-Saveurs gastronomy workshops Location: Geneva, route de Lausanne Link out: Click here Description: Workshops and tasting sessions: oils, wine, chocolate and more with some of Switzerland’s top experts Start Date: 28 Feb 2009 Start Time: 10:00 End Date: 01 Mar 2009
Food & dining
Wine drips
For some reason I always thought only restaurants used something to stop wine drips, until I had one too many drops of red wine on our wooden table. I used coasters, plates, and on bad days, the handiest magazine or newspaper. When I was in Kathy Meinen’s shop in Satigny I spotted packets of foil […]
Wine of the week: Geneva gem from greener days
I sit in the mountains and look out at the white, white world, with more snow than we’ve had in years. It’s lovely but when I came across photos from Satigny, taken 6 October 2008, I sighed with pleasure at the colours and remembered the smell of ripe grapes that hung over the village. I […]
Know your Swiss wines: Ticino
Title: Know your Swiss wines: Ticino Location: Lutry, Grand Caveau du Singe Vert Link out: Click here Description: Tasting session with Vini Rovio Ronco, one of Ticino’s top producers (Ellen Wallace, GL editor and wine blogger, will join the group) Start Time: 15:00 Date: 31 Jan 2009 End Time: 17:30
Wine of the week: hunkering down for January with Humagne Rouge
The holidays are over, summer barbecues with cool whites and rosés are far in the distance, but there is a Swiss wine that is a delightful treat this time of year, when the snow lies round about, and roasts and stews tickle our noses. Humagne Rouge is a canton Valais wine specialty that originally hails […]