The wine season is starting soon, with summer tasting sessions in villages giving way to fairs like Vinea in Sierre, several competitions, culminating in the Swiss Wine Grand Prix in Bern in October. The Swiss wine harvest, with the smell of ripe grapes hanging over villages, starts in September and runs to November in some areas and for some varieties. Consumers’ minds turn to wine.
Gail Mangold Vine of CFS Communication has just offered her newsletter subscribers an excellent tip: a wine course in English on Geneva’s own wines, 13 September, 19:00-21:30 in Plan-les-Ouates, SFr50, limited to 25 people. Opage, the cantonal farm products office to which the cantonal grape and wine production department belongs, also offers wine courses in French several times a year.
For a list of the canton’s award-winning wines, see the Geneva Wine Selection Awards 2007 on the Opage site.