Autumn shifting to winter is always a visually charged season, with dramatic color changes. This is particularly true in a country like Switzerland: the Swiss wine landscape holds mountains and rivers and lakes and gentle hillsides all in close proximity. Altitude adds another element. We veer from winter to autumn and back to winter in […]
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Book review: Gault&Millau Suisse/Schweiz 2020
The new GaultMillau guide can be purchased in bookstores and online for CHF34.90 in French, CHF52 in German. The two language versions differ: the German one contains all 830 restaurants and lists of hotels, wineries, popular dining spots and the guide’s stars of the year. The French version has all of this but “only” 395 […]
News: all eyes on Vevey
It’s finally happening: the long-planned and anticipated Fête des Vignerons in Vevey, that once a generation event. It is well underway – crowds are big, security is good, the best vignerons-tacherons (the festival is centred around them) have been crowned, Vevey is abuzz with things to do and see, wine tasting is happening everywhere, and […]
Uncork now, Geneva white, Schaffhausen red – 30 May 2019
May and early June are for me the in-between time for wines, too cool to sip whites all evening outdoors but a night of red can feel like too much – we want to move on after a winter of them. I dropped in briefly at the end of a day of tasting organized by […]
Fine cuisine goes cozy at Geneva’s revamped Bistro
I love good food and I love uncomplicated, cozy meals, so the idea that a GaultMillau 17/20 chef in the middle of Geneva might think this is what his restaurant should serve was bound to appeal to me. Armel Bedouet has 17 points for the gastronomy restaurant l’Aparté, which has a mere 15 seats, and […]