Top awards for Swiss wines go to mix of new and old producers BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Winemaker of the Year for 2011 is Diego Mathier from Salquenen/Salgesch (cellar: Nouveau Salquenen) in canton Valais who previously won the coveted award in 2007. He was named at a gala dinner Tuesday night 25 October in […]
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Head for Valais for some glorious wine time! (update)
Update 21:00 SION, SWITZERLAND – It doesn’t get much more perfect for wine-tasting weather, as Switzerland’s largest wine-producing canton opens its winery doors for three days, to present the newly bottled 2010 vintage. It was a very good year, the wines are a delight, the sun is shining and temperatures are expected to be 23-25C […]
Open Day in Geneva: how to visit wineries, where to go (update)
Update 29 May Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva is the grandaddy of Swiss wine open days: it was the first to offer this, in 1987, and the event has become hugely popular. Several things contribute to this: almost all the cellars participate, some 80 out of 95, they are geographically fairly close so it is […]
Water, water, but no longer everywhere
Free drinking water starting to disappear in Switzerland I went to the renowned Sprüngli pastry shop in Zurich a few months ago with my chocolate-lover soul-mate, Tina Daub. Not having been there since our college days, we were excited and our taste buds were tingling at full speed before we even sat down. We ordered […]
Recipe: Alps winter rainy day soup, sausage
by Ellen Wallace You come to the Alps in winter with expectations of glorious blue skies and pristine white slopes, accompanied by the warming tones of cheese fondue, raclette and gluh wine or laced coffee taken in the brisk outdoor air. And then it rains. It is not supposed to do that between Christmas and […]