Update 10:00 (link to blog with tips for visiting) LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Wine-lovers will be spoiled three times over after this weekend, with canton Vaud holding what promises to be a major new annual event on the wine calendar. Saturday and Sunday 11-12 June are open days for wineries in Vaud, with 70 percent of […]
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Wine investors: drinkers and investors won during the financial crisis
There are two types of wine investors: those who buy wines they want to explore, and who set them aside for later when the sensory value will have increased, and those who buy, gambling that the price will rise neatly. The investors will either sell it or open the bottle when it is time to […]
Alcohol abuse: Winemakers say education, not ad bans, is key
Wine is more than a beverage, courses teach you: “It’s really about understanding the pleasure of wine – the smell, how it tastes, what’s behind it.”
Swiss wines 2009: one for the records!
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The first analyses of the 2009 Swiss wine vintage, in November, showed them to be very promising, but the federal agriculture department’s end of the year gift to the wine business 31 December was its confirmation that 2009 was not just very good, but excellent: one for the records in terms […]
New Vaud AOC wine rules spark battle for top slots
Féchy, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Wine producers in the small (population: 700) village of Féchy, above the lakeside town of Rolle, met Friday 12 June for the annual “baptism” of their Vigne du Monde, vintage 2008. It was a remarkably charming event, held next to the landmark hillside white chapel, with the sun shining, the […]