Fed Ag station forecast is upbeat GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Cross your fingers that the weather is friendly to Swiss grapes in the next two to four weeks, as the harvest is pulled in: so far, so good for an excellent vintage, is the verdict of the Changins Federal Agriculture Research Station […]
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Wine pick: Chandra Kurt, Bolle – Yvorne
ELLEN’S WINE WORLD / SWISS WINES – White wine, Chasselas. Chandra Kurt is well known in German-speaking areas as the author of a number of wine books but in particular for her annual guide to supermarket wines. She has been working with two of Switzerland’s largest winemakers to create collections of her own wines. The […]
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, […]
October starts out damp, winemakers wait for grapes
Weather forecast, gray mornings, sunny afternoons GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – The strange weather year of 2013 continues to hand us surprises, with October, generally a sunny month in Switzerland, handing us rain just about everywhere on the first day of the month. MeteoSwiss, in its reports on September 2013 weather, says that […]
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 […]