Update 10:00 (link to blog with tips for visiting) LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Wine-lovers will be spoiled three times over after this weekend, with canton Vaud holding what promises to be a major new annual event on the wine calendar. Saturday and Sunday 11-12 June are open days for wineries in Vaud, with 70 percent of […]
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Swiss wine review video: Païen Les Serpentines 2008
Second of our four trial videos. White wine, dry Grape variety, Païen Winery: Cave Gérald and Patricia Besse Location: canton Valais – Martigny View this wine reviewed in French by Laurent Probst and in German by Gabriel Tinguely [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYIqbogjKI8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Souvenirs of pleasure during Geneva winery Open day
Photos by Sean Ecker GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Sean Ecker visited a winery that is new to the Geneva wineries’ Open day, Clos de la Zone, Valentin Vidonne winemaker, in Gy. Swiss wine labeling laws changed this year to allow wineries to include grapes from their vine parcels over the border in France, and the Vidonne […]
Introducing our new Swiss wine review videos!
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – GenevaLunch is proud to present: the first video reviews of Swiss wines! I’m part of a three-language team, under the aegis of romanduvin.ch, which is starting a series of professional, independent reviews of Swiss wines by wine journalists, in video format. We did our first series last month, and I’ll be posting […]
Head for Valais for some glorious wine time! (update)
Update 21:00 SION, SWITZERLAND – It doesn’t get much more perfect for wine-tasting weather, as Switzerland’s largest wine-producing canton opens its winery doors for three days, to present the newly bottled 2010 vintage. It was a very good year, the wines are a delight, the sun is shining and temperatures are expected to be 23-25C […]