Tanja Grandits, Swiss Chef of the Year 2014, Gault & Millau ZURICH, SWITZERLAND /AMONG THE VINES – Tanja Grandits, chef at Restaurant Stucki in Basel has just become the first woman ever to win the Gault & Millau title Swiss Chef of the Year – 20 years ago Irma Dütsch iin Saas Fee, canton Valais, […]
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Semaine du goût: beautiful “nothingness” in wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – An accolade of enormous value was given to Chasselas by a notable Japanese wine critic last week. Journalist Katsuyuki Tanaka, reports Pierre-Emmanuel Buss in Le Temps, praised the white wine so inextricably linked to its birthplace, the Lake Geneva region, in a speech entitled “Chasselas is nothing”. Nothing […]
160 new jobs in Verbier where the news is the interviews
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss hotels are joining the rest of Swiss business in a frenzy of innovation – forget cozy charms of the past, with Verbier as the latest to join a trend of hot hotel options. The Valais resort this winter will see the opening of a sizzling new extreme travel hotel that will […]
Marriage of sky and Earth begets fine tea, wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – There is nothing quite like a sip of 100-year-old Pu’er tea unless it’s a 2009 Chateau Fleur de Petrus wine from Bordeaux. They make odd siblings, but the genes are there: Mother Earth, Father Sky, with terroir products par excellence as the offspring. Bordeaux is a quick one-hour […]
Merlot award-winning wines: recommendations
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – I’ve been on a sharp learning curve with Merlot wines. Let me share the experience with you. Judging a competition versus wine-tasting as a writer Judging a wine competition is completely different from the blind tastings to which journalists are invited. For the Mondial du Merlot I did […]