GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – The chief executive of Switzerland’s largest winery, Valais cooperative Provins, is leaving the company after 15 years, effective 31 January. The firm, in a statement, offered no explanation for the abrupt departure of Roland Vergères, who has headed the group for 13 years, but it thanked him for […]
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Swiss wine and food, a great selection for gifts
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – One week until Christmas and if you don’t yet have your gifts for family, friends or the company, don’t panic. You’re in luck: 2013 is a great year for offering Swiss gifts centred around food and wine, and if you hurry you can still get gifts delivered on […]
Holiday cheer this weekend at wineries
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – The last shopping weekend before Christmas is a favourite time for stopping by wineries and seeing if there is something for your spouse, best friend or favourite client. Here is my personal pick of cellars that are holding open houses Saturday 14 December, most of them from 10-17:00, […]
Swiss artisanal wines: great wine needs patience
Fourth in a 7-part series on the Swiss wine harvest 2013 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Wine artisan Meinrad Gaillard is quick to say making wine isn’t about money but about loving to make great wine, and the secret to that is time. Slow wine, wine that spends years in the cellar before […]
Winterthur: small arty town reshapes its image
By Bob Evans GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Winterthur? Isn’t that where the insurance people come from? They have a nice art gallery, don’t they? I heard it was just a suburb of Zurich. You go through it on the train to St Gallen. It’s where Swiss heavy industry got started. It must be pretty grim. Don’t […]