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Vaud tallies results of 5 year pilot wine tourism project

22/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Switzerland has been a laggard for wine tourism, which has been successfully expanding in France and Italy for several years. France, for example, went from 7.5 million wine tourists in 2009 to more than 10 million in 2016 – with an increase of 40% more foreign tourists. Wineries everywhere are suffering from greater competition and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aigle, Association Vaud d'Oenotourism, Association Vaud d'oOenotourism, Chateau de Chillon, Henri Badoux, Swiss Wine Tourism Awards, Switzerland wine tourism, Valais wine tourism, Vaud wine tourism

Commenting on Washington Post article on Swiss wines

18/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

The Washington Post carries an article about Swiss wine, which is nicely written and some good wines are listed, plus it draws the attention of a wider audience to Swiss wines, all to the good. It also has all the usual clichés (chocolate, cheese, tiny number exported, etc.) that you get when a writer helicopters […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Beudon, chocolate, cliches, Concours de Bruxelles, Fêtes des Vignerons, Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson, learn about Swiss wines, Marion and Jacques Granges, Pinot Noir, Swiss wine article, Swiss wine landscape, the landscape of Swiss wine, Washington Post

Book review: Roche et vin

28/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

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.

Filed Under: Garden & nature, News Tagged With: Roche et vin, Stein und Wein, Swiss wine book, Swiss wine landscape, the landscape of Swiss wine

If you read nothing else about America and wine …

04/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Apothic Red, Eric Asimov, Meiomi, New York Times, popular wines, supermarket wines, Swiss supermarket wines, The Prisoner, USA

Big 2019 Swiss wine year

25/01/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Concours de Bruxelles, Fêtes de Vignerons, media coverage, OIV AGM

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