Valais cooperative Provins named Winemaker of the Year BERN, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Provins in Sion, Valais, a cooperative that is the country’s largest wine producer, walked away from the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse (GPVS) awards in Bern Tuesday night with the title of Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2103 for its […]
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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 […]
Memoire & Friends wine-tasting day
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – This has grown, in just 5 years, into one of Switzerland’s best opportunities to taste Swiss wines, particularly for people in the east of the country: 170 producers from the 6 wine regions plus the “fifth Switzerland” (Swiss abroad). The Memoire des Vins Suisse group, with many of the country’s top winemakers, created the exhibition and sales day to invite other producers they consider good for a professionals tasting day that was open to the public.
This year it moves from an exhibition-sales event for professionals to a public affair with no obligation to buy. As a result, a modest entry fee of CHF15 (order online) is being charged, to limit it to wine fans. For those who’ve attended the many cantonal and private open days earlier in the year, this is an opportunity to taste wines that are now more mature, with more time in bottle.
Online buying for Swiss wines gets boost (correction)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND /AMONG THE VINES – Two specialist sellers of quality Swiss wines are combining their activities, a boost for Swiss wine fans. Cellier Romand, which has been marketing discovery cartons of three quality wines a month from French-speaking Switzerland, has ceded its business to Swiss Wine Selection. The latter is an online business started […]
Marriage of sky and Earth begets fine tea, wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – There is nothing quite like a sip of 100-year-old Pu’er tea unless it’s a 2009 Chateau Fleur de Petrus wine from Bordeaux. They make odd siblings, but the genes are there: Mother Earth, Father Sky, with terroir products par excellence as the offspring. Bordeaux is a quick one-hour […]