I’m about to start a series of reports here on older vintage Swiss wines. I’ve hesitated because of a niggling question: why should the public care about them? What’s the big deal, as far as drinkers are concerned? First, some key dates if you want to taste vintage wines: Two excellent ways to enjoy and […]
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News roundup: Swiss weekend votes, Uber, Fifa, euro impact
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’m back from five intense days of wine-tasting for Ellen’s Wine World; here’s what’s been happening in local and Swiss news: Energy tax – thumbs down Swiss voters gave a loud “no” – a record 92% refused it – to a tax on energy use, proposed by the political Left, Sunday 8 […]
Chasselas on world wine radars
Chasselas, Switzerland’s iconic white wine, is now on the Robert Parker radar. This is clearly good news for Swiss wineries that produce it – and since it is the second-most widely planted grape in the country, this counts. Chasselas has also inched onto Jancis Robinson’s radar, and Hugh Johnson was talking happily about it back […]
Gauguin’s warmth, a Swiss winter antidote
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – The new Gauguin exhibit that opened Sunday at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel is just what we all need to chase away the winter blues. Lusciously warm splashes of colour and scenes from southern climates that were exotic when he painted them, and remain so today despite easier access, offer a fine […]
Swiss gold in liquid form
Withered Pinot Gris grapes make a luscious sweet wine A beautiful reincarnation began on the mountainside above Aigle last Saturday: 60 0 kg of shriveled and mostly unattractive grapes were snipped off the vines and began a slow transformation into a rich gold liquid that is one of the treasures of Switzerland, at the Badoux […]