GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – The last shopping weekend before Christmas is a favourite time for stopping by wineries and seeing if there is something for your spouse, best friend or favourite client. Here is my personal pick of cellars that are holding open houses Saturday 14 December, most of them from 10-17:00, […]
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Vaud winery takes top Alpine red wine prize
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – David Kind is a small wine producer with a prodigious talent for good wines and he’s just been amply rewarded for his work at the annual 7 Ceps wine competition in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. The competition brings together producers from seven wine regions around Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak: […]
Swiss Wine Week
Swiss Wine Week is a wonderful new idea from the wine and food industries in Switzerland. It kicks off country-wide Thursday 28 November and lasts for 10 days. It brings together restaurants and wineries to give diners a chance to discover Swiss wines. So far, for this first-ever event that promises to become a national […]
‘Tis the season, bring on the bubbly stuff!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – A hard week at the office started with tasting 80 sparkling wines Monday, including a handful of French champagnes. Oddly, friends and family showed very little sympathy for a solid eight hours in front of my three tasting glasses, sitting in a large 15th century chateau in Neuchatel. […]
Light dinner & Celtic musicArte & Vini, Cave des Lauriers
What a wonderful way to show support for a good winery in one of the areas hardest hit by the 17 June 2013 hailstorm. Haunting music from Brittany in this old family winery, with dinner (by reservation)