Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Canton Geneva presented its new wines to the world Tuesday 4 May and one of the guests was a knowledgeable fan: Chris McSorley, who heads the Geneva Servette Hockey Club, which just lost the Swiss hockey title in a tight best-of-seven battle with Bern. McSorley, who also owns a restaurant, loves […]
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Wine pick: Petite Arvine from Valais
Valais has a wonderful collection of wines, far richer in diversity than most wine-growing regions in the world. One of the real jewels among them is Petite Arvine, a wine which has a surprisingly salty finish. A friend who was translating a wine text recently asked me, “That can’t be right, can it? it’s not […]
An asparagus tip: preserving tender stalks
By Ellen Wallace Most of us don’t have the luxury of going out into the garden, picking the asparagus, then cooking it within minutes, which gives a heavenly vegetable. The best alternative, and this is the season for it, is to go to the farmer’s door early in the morning to buy freshly picked stalks, […]
World’s oldest bottled single malt whisky gets corked
It’s $10,000 a bottle if you’re lucky enough to put your hands on one of the 54 bottles of Gordon & MacPhail’s recently released Mortlach 70-year-old whisky, the oldest bottled single malt whisky in the world, the company says. These are the standard 700ml bottles, so if this is out of your price range, don’t […]
Swiss shift their wine habits, 2009 figures show
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss drank more French champagne and more bottled wine from Italy, and especially more imported red wine in 2009, a year where the global economic crisis appears to have had a curious impact on wine consumption in the country. Imports rose by 3.4 percent in 2009, after falling in 2008, […]