GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – You carry a name like Wallace and you’re bound to be interested in all things Scottish, so when you’re Wallace, the wine writer, and you see that someone north of Edinburgh is planting grapes, you’re all ears. Bloomberg reports that Christopher Trotter, a food writer and chef, has planted 200 vines that […]
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Arvinis kicks off Swiss spring wine tastings
Reposted from Ellen’s Wine World, your source of information about Swiss wines, where I’ll be giving away some 1/2-price tickets to Arvinis later this week. 2-7 April in Morges Ellen’s Wine World: “Sensory pleasure of Swiss reds” LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The wine-tasting spring and summer season begins next week with the now-established tradition of the […]
Oxford students blind-taste to near perfection in Lausanne
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Take a glass of red wine, a glass of white, give five university students 15 minutes to blind-taste them, discuss them and draw conclusions, then present in great detail the wines, for a jury that includes the World’s Best Sommelier 2013, Paolo Basso. This is what we saw Saturday night 22 March […]
Alcohol abuse costs Swiss CHF632 each
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The “social cost” of alcohol abuse in Switzerland in 2010 was CHF4.2 billion according to a study published 20 March by the Swiss Public Health Office. Switzerland has 6.7 million people over the age of 15: the cost to the economy comes to CHF632 per person over age 15, argues Bern. The […]
California vines shaken slightly
A 6.8 earthquake rattled northern California slightly early Monday, 70km west-northwest of Ferndale, California and about 240 miles northwest of Napa valley. The tremors were felt in San Francisco, but no damage has been reported from the earthquake, which had a depth of 7 km. Sonoma County had a smaller earthquake in January that was […]