Cantons Geneva and Vaud this week announced the winners of their “Selections”, the official wine competitions that each year name the best local wines in several categories. For Geneva, the wines are blind-tasted by a group of professionals trained by the cantonal wine office; the winners then represent the canton at several other wine competitions, […]
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Swiss wine news: new image for Cave de la Côte
Vaud cooperative making strong comeback Cave de la Côte in Tolochenaz, near Morges, is one of Switzerland’s largest wineries and a highly regarded cooperative, for some years now one of the pioneers that has helped us redefine positively what it means to be a coop. Head oenologist Rodrigo Banto has been making award-winning wines […]
The many shades of Arvine: a tribute
Today has been a day for celebrating in Fully, canton Valais, the day when Spring and Petite Arvine are declared to be partners, and people turn their attention to this wonderful grape, one of Europe’s finest. Wineries invite special guests – last year saw several winemakers from Burgundy – the wine flows to keep up […]
Head of EHL named Vaud wines president
Michel Rochat, the head of the École Hotelière de Lausanne, has been named president of the Office des Vins Vaudois, the canton’s wine promotion body. He succeeds Pierre Keller as of January 2019. Keller will have served in the part-time post for 8 years when he leaves; he has heavily promoted Vaud wines outside Switzerland, […]
Hunting for great Arvines (Bern)
It’s hard to stay focused at a good wine fair. I went to Bern recently to visit Vinumrarum, an annual weekend wine fair for independent family wineries. I decided to focus on Petite Arvine wines. The more people who make this increasingly popular wine (Valais produced 1.9 million kg Arvine grapes in 2016, about 100,000 […]