20% off for a superb gift, CHF19.20, or CHF18 each if you buy 2, plus shipping & handling. Normal price CHF24. BUY NOW Offer valid from noon Friday 8 December until noon Tuesday 12 December (order-received time counts), plus shipping & handling. Also available in bookstores in French-speaking Switzerland. Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines: buy it […]
Vineglorious! Swiss wine book
Wine books: Chasselas, 2 guides, Swiss grapes
Holiday and gift-giving time is not far off, and this year you should consider some good books for wine fans. My four top choices, three of which are in French, are: Cepages Suisses, histoire et origines, by José Vouillamoz, out this week Gault & Millau Guide Suisse 2018, published in October Guide Bleu 2017/18, published […]
Jancis Robinson, Vineglorious book review
(Update, 29 December: many thanks to Jancis Robinson for permission to republish in its entirety a new review of my Swiss wine book ). A series of reviews by JR staffer Tamlyn Currin includes a review of Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines, published 27 December. Currin ran a series of year-end book reviews in 2015 and they were so popular […]
Special 24-hr offer: Vineglorious! 2 for 1
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 […]
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 […]