GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – One of the best tools I’ve seen yet, for wine-lovers in Switzerland, is now officially launched, and it’s a gem. The Swiss Wine Directory has been in the making for several months – the idea is great, and as I’ve watched it evolve since its pre-launch and trial phase for the wine […]
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WRS radio interview: Geneva caves ouvertes
Interview by Tony Johnston at WRS radio about Geneva’s special little treasure chest wines, the perfect something-different for the wineries’ open house day Saturday, 30 May 2015. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/207497270″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]
Geneva’s open house: seek special treasures
Geneva holds its wineries’ open house day this Saturday, 30 May, a great chance to discover some of the little treasure chest wines hidden there. Grape names you rarely hear in Switzerland, or at least not in French-speaking Switzerland, like Scheurebe, Kerner, Findling, Dunkelfelder and Cabernet Dorsaz, are on the wine lists of several wineries. […]
Valais wine days, extreme weather bonus
Three days of open house for wineries in canton Valais, and three kinds of weather: the best to sample the huge variety of wines made in this largest of Swiss wine regions! Thursday 14 May was gloriously sunny, balmy weather that was perfect for tasting the new vintage white wines, from aperitif Fendants to Heida […]
Golden chance to hike Follatères
If you have a chance to join the Valais wine and vine museum’s Ascension Day hike this year, you should: Thursday 14 May from 9:30 to noon, rendezvous at the Fol’terres pavilion at the west end of Fully, two minutes from the Martigny-Fully autoroute exit. The guided walk is in French but Anne-Do Zufferey, the […]