This is a wonderful book that gathers up several scientific threads from several fields and makes them accessible to a lay public. The subject: how geology has formed the landscape that gave birth to Swiss vineyards and thus Swiss wines and the impact of all of this on contemporary wines.
News
If you read nothing else about America and wine …
One of the best articles I’ve read on wine, consumer attitudes and the American market. None of which would make it worth reading to most of us outside the USA except that so much of it applies to the rest of us.
Big 2019 Swiss wine year
Switzerland’s big wine year of 2019 is starting to receive news coverage in the wine world. By spring it will be in full swing in the general media.
Ouf! Chasselas in Dico
Check out what is possibly the most complete and up to date article on Chasselas.
Swiss winery wins world tourism “public choice” vote
Celliers de Sion, the year-old wine tourism centre in Sion, is capping its first year with yet another prize: the “public choice award” among the international finalists at the Great Wine Capitals of the World wine tourism awards. The new venture was given an “international best of wine tourism award” in Adelaide, Australia in early […]