GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Autumn is here, with its cool nights and glorious colours – and for Saturday at least, fine sunny weather. Be sure to check out our continually-updated sister site, Events.GenevaLunch.com, where you’ll find suggestions for this weekend as well as coming weeks. Story continues below Consider the lovely old wine village of Tartegnin […]

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, […]

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 […]

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND / EDITOR’S NOTEPAD – The “Semaine du goût” (taste week) at the end of September left many a good meal under our belts, but my personal favourite of the week deserves a special mention and a few photos. I had lunch with the Vaud cantonal police, a guest at their VIP table – […]

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – An accolade of enormous value was given to Chasselas by a notable Japanese wine critic last week. Journalist Katsuyuki Tanaka, reports Pierre-Emmanuel Buss in Le Temps, praised the white wine so inextricably linked to its birthplace, the Lake Geneva region, in a speech entitled “Chasselas is nothing”. Nothing […]