Note: I’m still on an extended vacation in the US, but want to alert everyone to the biggest annual wine event(s) in Switzerland: the wineries open days. Here’s a summary of the information provided by Swiss Wine Promotion – and I’ll be back on wine writing duty by the middle of next week. Six regions, […]
Wineries
Five Swiss rare wines
LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – Thursday evening I gave a talk to a sellout crowd at the Anglo-Swiss Club in Locarno on unusual and rare Swiss grape varieties. We then tasted five of these wines. Here are some brief notes on the wines, with contact information for the wineries. All of these wines are produced in limited […]
Warm winter, early budding – clues to change
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Hazelnut trees began to bud throughout Switzerland 15 December 2015, the earliest since records have been kept, more than 150 years. Meteoswiss published information this week about the early budding and other signs that warming is happening earlier and earlier. A number of plants are showing leaves a week earlier than in […]
Old vintages festival, night
This is the fifth annual Nuit des Vieux Millésimes and festival, two wonderful opportunities to explore older vintages of Swiss wines. The Night, 3 March, features restaurants with special menus designed around the older wines, for a set price. Details will be added to the Night’s web page in coming days. The festival and Night […]
Geneva airport’s Altitude: new chef, look, food
Republished from genevalunch.com, my news site. Note: no word as yet on what is happening to the fine wine collection carried by Altitude, including many Swiss wines. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The gastronomic restaurant Altitude at Geneva’s international airport will have a new name, Le Chef, a new interior and a new celebrity chef, Benjamin Luzuy, […]