Home crowd: Arvinis wine fair attendance slips, but sales up MORGES, SWITZERLAND – Marketing efforts for Swiss wines are being stepped up in Germany while at home the crowds turned out once again to meet the new vintages in Morges. The Arvinis wine fair closed its doors Monday night with atendance down slightly to around […]
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Vaud approves wine tourism budget
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – In a first for Switzerland, a cantonal council has approved a budget and programme for wine tourism. The Grand Conseil in Vaud Tuesday 1 April unanimously adopted a five-year CHF2.5 million budget that will help develop a wine tourism project. Top priorities are training people in other businesses to be familiar with […]
Swiss first-ever food & wine week kicks off
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Swiss wine producers and Swiss restaurants have a treat in store for diners over the next 10 days, as the first-ever Swiss Wine Week gets underway. Diners can go to the web site and search for a restaurant using the map, where each dot represents a restaurant taking […]
Restaurants join Swiss Wine Week
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – More than 120 restaurants have joined a new wine & dine project to encourage the public to discover, or re-discover Swiss wines, especially those from areas beyond their own corner of the country. The first Swiss Wine Week will run from 28 November to 6 December, throughout Switzerland. […]
Bern takes steps to let wine stocks flow
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Lower wine consumption in most markets, over-production in 2011, a high Swiss franc and stocks of wine that aren’t moving lie behind a decision by Bern to allow AOC (appellation d’origine contrôlée) wines to be sold as table wines. The extraordinary measure starts 1 June and will be in effect until the […]