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 […]
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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 […]
Here’s to a fine weekend!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Swiss sparkling wines, particularly traditional method (the way champagne is made), are improving dramatically. More about that soon, but in the meantime, here is to a happy weekend, with plenty to do (check out our sister site, Events.GenevaLunch.com). Cheers! Temperatures range from 8-14C in most of the country […]
Best little Swiss wine app, now android
The Vinea Swiss wine app was released a year ago for iPhones/iPads and now it’s available for android via Google Play. It’s been updated and improved, as are most apps after a few months on the market, but this already very useful app – and it’s free – now includes the winners of the 2013 Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, which is Switzerland’s national wine competition.
The awards ceremony was earlier this week in Bern. GenevaLunch feature on the award-winning wines. More …
Swiss wines 2013: nature makes the calls
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Winery Henri Cruchon in Echichens, just above the Morges Hospital, makes the kind of excellent quality and comfortable wines that let you forget life’s stresses. It’s easy for those of us who drink them to forget that when the time arrives to harvest the grapes the pressure suddenly rises sharply for everyone […]