Photo: Had we been able to see our wine it would have looked a bit like this. Six journalists lined up inside the Town Hall of Sierre, Valais Sunday to do a truly blind wine tasting. We put our left arms on the shoulders of the people in front of us, someone closed a pair […]
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Foreign interest in Swiss Pinot Noir competition grows
Sierre, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Awards given at the Mondial du Pinot Noir wine competition Friday, part of the events at Vinea, Switzerland’s largest wine fair which runs 1-2 September, show a growing international interest in the Swiss-based competition, now in its 10th year. Four top prizes, the Grandes Médailles d’Or, went to wines from Chile, […]
Pinot Noir, the holy grail of winemakers
Photo, top: an unusal feature at the Mondial du Pinot Noir this year was a truly blind tasting, with small groups of judges led into a darkened room where they tasted wines without the benefit of seeing them. Photo, below: much is learned about a wine simply by looking at it in the glass, watching […]
Burgundy wakes up to Swiss wine competition
Sierre, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The only Pinot Noir (single grape) international wine competition, the Mondiale du Pinot Noir, kicks off in Sierre, Valais today, with Burgundy for the first time participating on a large scale. Burgundy has long dominated the market and been synonymous in the public’s mind with Pinot Noir, the grape responsible […]