Canton Vaud, as the second largest wine-producing region, takes up the relay from Valais
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Swiss wine farmers market
A farmer’s market for wine producers once a month from March to October, new in 2014, as part of the larger market at Place St Francois in Lausanne. Watch our EventsGenevaLunch.com resources listings for further developments as this new market gets underway.
Chillon slides 400 wines into Lake Geneva
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – An exciting wine research experiment is underway in the chilly waters of Lake Geneva. You read that headline right: Switzerland’s most visited tourist attraction, the Chateau de Chillon near Montreux, took 330 bottles of its excellent Chasselas wine, Clos de Chillon, and some sparkling wines and slipped them […]
Chateau de Chillon wines into lake
Chateau de Chillon’s wines have had a re-brith in the past three years and are gaining an excellent reputation in the wine world, under the guidance of Badoux winery’s oenologist, Daniel Dufaux. The second “dumping” of 400 bottles of the most recent vintage of the wine as well as a brut sparkling wine from Badoux into Lake Geneva doesn’t mean they are throwing it away, but storing it at a low temperature in a pilot project.
The goal is to see what the impact is on the evolution of wine stored and matured underwater. Tests will be carried out by oenologists for tasting but also by the federal research station in Changins for the impact on the chemical and biological makeup of the wine.
Provins CEO leaves
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – The chief executive of Switzerland’s largest winery, Valais cooperative Provins, is leaving the company after 15 years, effective 31 January. The firm, in a statement, offered no explanation for the abrupt departure of Roland Vergères, who has headed the group for 13 years, but it thanked him for […]