GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Winery Henri Cruchon in Echichens, just above the Morges Hospital, makes the kind of excellent quality and comfortable wines that let you forget life’s stresses. It’s easy for those of us who drink them to forget that when the time arrives to harvest the grapes the pressure suddenly rises sharply for everyone […]
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Let the wine grapes roll! Harvest underway
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – I’ll be spending hours and hours among the vines in several cantons during the coming weeks, now that the grape harvest is well underway. Here are images from my first day out (at the end of the article), harvesting with workers from the Jean-René Germanier winery in Vétroz, […]
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 […]
Grape harvest kicks off – use care on roads!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND /AMONG THE VINES – The grape harvest begins today in most of Switzerland and you can expect to find secondary roads everywhere slowed by tractors, trailers and other slow-moving vehicles coming and going from the vineyards. Canton Vaud police Monday morning issued a warning to drivers to use care and adapt their speeds […]
Geneva-Lausanne train traffic behind increase
Punctuality, connections slip slightly ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss trains successfully wooed 1.6 percent more travelers during the first half of 2013, but as a result there was some slippage in trains arriving on time and connections made. The success rates was 87.3 percent for punctuality (down from 89.5 percent) and 97.5 percent, down from 98.3 […]