Wines entered at Mondial du Merlot up sharply Ticino winery wins for 3 consecutive vintage wines ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A Merlot from Frioul, Italy, won a great gold award, the top prize, at the Mondial des Merlots: Merlot Masut Da Rive 2009. The awards were announced at the Hotel Metropol in Zurich Tuesday 20 May. […]
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Geneva gets a train station to love
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you haven’t visited the Cornavin train station in Geneva recently you are in for a big surprise. Most of the renovation – better put, overhaul – of the station has now been completed. Wednesday 14 May the CFF/SBB inaugurated the station’s new Business Point centre and first class lounge, just days […]
Swiss wine observatory set for 2015
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I mentioned a couple weeks ago that Swiss Wine Promotion (SWP) is developing a Swiss Wine Observatory but details have come out this week as the project moves forward. Sébastien Fabbi, managing director of SWP, told news agency ats that it will be published three times a year starting in 2015. It […]
Hublot throws marketing weight behind Vaud wines
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Expect to see Vaud Chasselas soon in Copacabana, during the World Cup, served in the Hublot watch VIP lounge. Jean-Claude Biver and his ultra-luxe watch company Hublot are giving wines from canton Vaud a serious marketing boost through a new partnership: Hublot and the OVV, the Vaud Wine Organization, announced 9 May […]
WHO pushes for policies to cut alcohol abuse
Re-published from Ellen’s Wine World GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – “Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths in 2012 were due to harmful use of alcohol,” says the World Health Organization (WHO). The Geneva-based organization 12 May published the “Global status report on alcohol and health 2014”. The new report provides country profiles for alcohol consumption and problems such as […]