Vaud cooperative making strong comeback Cave de la Côte in Tolochenaz, near Morges, is one of Switzerland’s largest wineries and a highly regarded cooperative, for some years now one of the pioneers that has helped us redefine positively what it means to be a coop. Head oenologist Rodrigo Banto has been making award-winning wines […]
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Provin introduces its Domaine line
Provins is Switzerland’s largest winery, a regular winner of medals at various competitions – in addition, it is the largest winery and a cooperative in the largest wine-producing region of Valais – so what it does matters. Last week, 25 May, it took restaurateurs, major clients and wine writers into four of its vineyards to […]
Swiss Bruxelles competition winners
Nearly one-third of the Swiss wines entered in the Bruxelles wine competition, 49 out of 166 entered, have come home with gold or silver medals; the results were announced Friday 25 May. Two won top honours with great gold medals: Viognier Blanc from Philippe Varone Vins in Sion, Valais and Yvorne Petit Vignoble Blanc vintage […]
Ruminations on recent wine news
Sunday wine news perusings and musings for you. An article in Forbes about Swiss wine that will please the country’s wine promotion body, an interesting article about natural wine in The Guardian that is too focused on France, a provocative story in Le Temps about Bern’s efforts to centralize agricultural (including wine) research, a promising […]
Aigle to host Bruxelles wine competition
Big news for canton Vaud – and Switzerland – is that Aigle will host the 2019 Bruxelles wine competition, one of the world’s largest. The event will bring some 300 judges to Aigle to taste 9,000 wines from 2 to 5 May 2019 at the World Cycling Center in Aigle. The choice was announced as […]