Re-posted from Ellen’s Wine World Astonishing gag order “extremely rare” but will be respected: RTS GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss public television RTS was on the verge of running two news reports Monday evening on unfolding Giroud Vins legal problems when, in a move that RTS describes as “extremely rare”, a Sion court in canton Valais […]
Wineries
Epesses winery joins Clos, Domaines & Châteaux
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Domaine Croix Duplex 6 May became the 25th member of the Clos, Domaines & Châteaux group of wineries in canton Vaud. The family winery midway up the slopes of Epesses above Grandvaux has been headed since 2012 by Simon and Maude Vogel, a brother-sister team who took over from their parents, Jean […]
Collars, bowties, bottle necks, quality labels
Quality label for wine seeks to shine GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Terravin, Vaud wine quality label organization, says it will be making changes in 2015 to help consumers understand that it isn’t a competition, but a quality label. It will keep the colour gold but probably move away from a sticker to a collar for the […]
Falling in love again: Vully
There are many wonderful things about wine, not least of which it allows you to keep falling in love! Occasional bouts of jealousy among the lovers is completely manageable, happily. Yesterday I fell in love yet again, this time with the Swiss region of Vully and in particular with the village of Môtier, which must […]
Swiss falling in love with their own wines again
Special measures post-2011 large harvest BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss wines, in particular white wines, are suddenly all the rage at home, with total wine consumption for Switzerland rising in 2013 by some 10 percent, most of that due to higher consumption of Swiss wines. Sales and consumption of foreign wines fell by 4 million litres. […]