GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The debate goes on: to harvest by hand or by machine. Some top-quality wine producers argue that machines just don’t cut it, that they are not as good at harvesting grapes as humans. Hand-crafted is undoubtedly always a good marketing line. But are consumers being bamboozled by it? Story continues below The […]
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Droning their way to great grapes
Swiss vineyards take drones to new level GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Vineyards have been using drones regularly for aerial photography for some years, mainly in the US and Australia, but a Swiss pilot project is taking drones to new heights – not literally, but in terms of their technological prowess. This week a surprising Swiss trio […]
The life of a vine – moontime
Here’s a fine moon I just posted on Ellen’s Garden World – the message applies equally to vineyards. Have you ever sat quietly in a vineyard late at night with a splendid moon in the sky?
Ye olde blogs, a tribute
Yesterday I had a brief conversation with a man who mentioned he’d started blogging in 2005, when almost no one was doing it because blogging platforms were such a new thing. It got me thinking about those early days, so I went back and had a look at what I was writing and photographing on […]
Study: wine labels influence our judgement
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine labels influence our decisions about buying wines, but they also affect how we assess wines we taste, a new Swiss study shows. Seeing the label may have up to a 60 percent impact on our evaluation of a wine we taste, Pascale Deneulin, senorial analysis professor at the Changins Agroscope federal […]