Dear readers, this is the day when Vaud’s best wines are selected by Terravin wine tasters, and I’m one of them. We will be tasting wines all morning, followed by lunch at the Hotel de Ville restaurant in Crissier, selected this week by the red Michelin guides as one of Switzerland’s two top restaurants, with […]
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Swiss starred Michelin restaurants up by 10%
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – The 2014 Michelin red guide for Suisse/Schweiz is published Wednesday 21 November. This year’s guide shows a remarkable 110 stars given to Swiss restaurants, a 10 percent increase in the number compared to a year earlier. Two restaurants have three stars, out of just over 100 three-star restaurants […]
Wine pick: Dom. Piron, beaujolais AOC Morgon 2011
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / FRENCH WINES – Red wine, French, Beaujolais region. Domaine Piron AOC Morgon 2011 Beaujolais is having a comback thanks to some fine producers, and Domaine Piron is one of them. Beaujolais is two hours from Geneva; if you feel like celebrating the Beaujolais Nouveau on its home territory this weekend, you’ll […]
Restaurants join Swiss Wine Week
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – More than 120 restaurants have joined a new wine & dine project to encourage the public to discover, or re-discover Swiss wines, especially those from areas beyond their own corner of the country. The first Swiss Wine Week will run from 28 November to 6 December, throughout Switzerland. […]
Wine pick: Domaine de Mourchon Séguret
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / FRENCH WINES – Red wine, French, Côte du Rhône. Domaine de Mourchon “Grande Réserve” 2011, AOC Séguret These are our neighbours, just a couple hours down the Rhone river from Geneva, where the wines start to become bigger, richer, more powerful. One of the rising stars, as French wine media are […]