Valais cooperative Provins named Winemaker of the Year BERN, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Provins in Sion, Valais, a cooperative that is the country’s largest wine producer, walked away from the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse (GPVS) awards in Bern Tuesday night with the title of Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2103 for its […]
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Top Swiss chef, Gault & Millau, is Basel woman (update)
Tanja Grandits, Swiss Chef of the Year 2014, Gault & Millau ZURICH, SWITZERLAND /AMONG THE VINES – Tanja Grandits, chef at Restaurant Stucki in Basel has just become the first woman ever to win the Gault & Millau title Swiss Chef of the Year – 20 years ago Irma Dütsch iin Saas Fee, canton Valais, […]
Semaine du goût: beautiful “nothingness” in wine
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 […]
160 new jobs in Verbier where the news is the interviews
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss hotels are joining the rest of Swiss business in a frenzy of innovation – forget cozy charms of the past, with Verbier as the latest to join a trend of hot hotel options. The Valais resort this winter will see the opening of a sizzling new extreme travel hotel that will […]
Marriage of sky and Earth begets fine tea, wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – There is nothing quite like a sip of 100-year-old Pu’er tea unless it’s a 2009 Chateau Fleur de Petrus wine from Bordeaux. They make odd siblings, but the genes are there: Mother Earth, Father Sky, with terroir products par excellence as the offspring. Bordeaux is a quick one-hour […]