GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Currency swings prompt a type of reporting all their own, and it isn’t the best journalism, stories pushed into an editor’s assumptions. It’s an approach akin to trying to fit a size 14 body into a size 10 dress. So if you read an article like this one in The Drinks Business, […]
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Vineglorious! book’s living Index
If you would like a printed copy of the index for your book, please contact me at ellen@ellenwine.com. You can also download and print the two-page Vineglorious index, PDF, identical to the one below, but without the links. Index: Vineglorious! Switzerlnd’s Wondrous World of Wines Note that grape variety descriptions appear in the margins throughout […]
J-C Biver wine award for Vaud promotion (with video)
3 suns: Vaud’s marketing mantra LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Jean-Claude Biver, has been given the Guillon d’Or prize in “recognition of, and admiration for, his career and the magnificent image he’s given canton Vaud around the world”, noting in particular his contributions to the world of Vaud wines. Biver received the award from the Confrérie de […]
Zurich hosts Memoire & Friends wine fair
Zurich Wineport is 2014 theme ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The city of Zurich is host Monday 25 August to a popular urban wine-tasting fair, the Memoire & Friends event. The fair has been organized for the past five years at the end of summer by the Mémoire des Vins Suisses group. This year’s theme is Zurich […]
Discovering a bit of Valais vineyard paradise
Valais, as the largest Swiss wine region, spread out over a large area, has three days for its winery open days – the other regions generally have two days. A new idea this year from the Musée du Vin et de la Vigne (MVV) in Sierre-Salgesch/Salquenen was to offer an inexpensive (CHF15) and relatively easy […]