To celebrate being back at work (just in time for a holiday break, ha!), I want to help you buy the perfect Swiss wine gift for the holidays – in fact two, one for you and one for someone special. Two books and shipping, all for the price of one book! Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of […]
Vineglorious! Swiss wine book
This weekend: Coppet’s garden fair, Valais wineries’ open days
We’re all crossing our fingers, hoping the fine warm weather will hold for the weekend, with a wonderful holiday (Ascension, a 4-day break for many) series of events on. The Geneva Marathon will keep thousands of runners drinking water, but the rest of us may be sampling wines in Valais, which is holding its open […]
Five Swiss rare wines
LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – Thursday evening I gave a talk to a sellout crowd at the Anglo-Swiss Club in Locarno on unusual and rare Swiss grape varieties. We then tasted five of these wines. Here are some brief notes on the wines, with contact information for the wineries. All of these wines are produced in limited […]
New to Switzerland, babies or antiques – 3 good tools
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – This is a good week for additional sources of help and information if you’re new to the Lake Geneva region – or new to the world of babies. Comparis, new web section on moving to Switzerland Comparis, which for nearly 20 years has been providing consumers with price comparisons for services and […]
Literary wine, a post-weekend love affair
What a crazy weekend – first, 2.5 days of intense wine education at Vinea, the wine fair in Sierre. It ended for me and a group of journalists Saturday night late, with an extraordinary dinner at Didier de Courten’s restaurant, 19/20 Gault&Millau, with a lineup of beautiful wines to accompany the meal. The only problem […]