Note: August 2022, move to Substack This is your point of reference for Swiss wines and the landscape that gives birth to them I’m a journalist and wine specialist who loves the broad landscape of Swiss wine, from its wines and vineyards to its extraordinary geography and rich cultural history. When I started to learn […]
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Beaujolais Nouveau, still young and blushing deeply at 60!
Beaujolais Nouveau, a marketing ploy that worked, turns 60 today GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Sixty years ago you had to be in France to get a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau, the light Gamay with notes of strawberries and raspberries that hits the streets of France every year in November. It was sold, in those good old […]
Switzerland gets its own AOCs!
When it comes to wine and food, a name is not just a name Switzerland has had AOCs for a while now, but on 14 January 2010, the Swiss federal agriculture office, OFAG, published an official bulletin containing a list of approximately 800 appellations of origin and geographical indications, roughly the equivalent of the French […]
Running away with the prizes
This blog has suffered from lack of attention by the author for the past month for a good reason: a team of seven and I have been putting the finishing touches on the first-ever English edition of The Swiss Wine Guide, which will make its debut 7 November, produced by Vinea and published by Ringier. […]
Book review: Gault&Millau Suisse/Schweiz 2020
The new GaultMillau guide can be purchased in bookstores and online for CHF34.90 in French, CHF52 in German. The two language versions differ: the German one contains all 830 restaurants and lists of hotels, wineries, popular dining spots and the guide’s stars of the year. The French version has all of this but “only” 395 […]