New Swiss diploma takes note of changes GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you’re dreaming of being a sommelier, standing with a neat napkin over your arm and pouring your favourite bottle of wine while nipping a bit in the back room, you’re stuck in a 1950s movie. The World’s Best Sommelier 2013, Paolo Basso from Ticino, […]
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Chillon slides 400 wines into Lake Geneva
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – An exciting wine research experiment is underway in the chilly waters of Lake Geneva. You read that headline right: Switzerland’s most visited tourist attraction, the Chateau de Chillon near Montreux, took 330 bottles of its excellent Chasselas wine, Clos de Chillon, and some sparkling wines and slipped them […]
Chateau de Chillon wines into lake
Chateau de Chillon’s wines have had a re-brith in the past three years and are gaining an excellent reputation in the wine world, under the guidance of Badoux winery’s oenologist, Daniel Dufaux. The second “dumping” of 400 bottles of the most recent vintage of the wine as well as a brut sparkling wine from Badoux into Lake Geneva doesn’t mean they are throwing it away, but storing it at a low temperature in a pilot project.
The goal is to see what the impact is on the evolution of wine stored and matured underwater. Tests will be carried out by oenologists for tasting but also by the federal research station in Changins for the impact on the chemical and biological makeup of the wine.
Swiss wine and food, a great selection for gifts
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – One week until Christmas and if you don’t yet have your gifts for family, friends or the company, don’t panic. You’re in luck: 2013 is a great year for offering Swiss gifts centred around food and wine, and if you hurry you can still get gifts delivered on […]
Swiss 2013 vintage could be very good
Fed Ag station forecast is upbeat GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Cross your fingers that the weather is friendly to Swiss grapes in the next two to four weeks, as the harvest is pulled in: so far, so good for an excellent vintage, is the verdict of the Changins Federal Agriculture Research Station […]