GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Emmanuel Giboulot, who has become a hero in the world of organic wines, was handed a €500 fine by a judge in Dijon, France Monday 7 April,for refusing to spray his wine grapes with a strong insecticide. He was ordered, along with other growers in the Cote d’Or region in Burgundy, to […]
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Bug battleground this Swiss spring
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Time to check your stock of insect repellant and check the leg-sock gap when you’re out hiking, for the spring of 2014 promises to be a battleground for bugs. Bugs after your garden plants, bugs after you: most of them are enjoying a relatively warm spring after a mild winter that killed […]
Burgundy winemaker in court Monday over pesticide refusal
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine producers in Switzerland are carefully watching a courthouse in Burgundy, just a small mountain range (Jura) away, where French winemaker Emmanuel Giboulot appeared before a Dijon judge Monday 24 February. Giboulot is accused of not following an agriculture department order issued to all wine grape growers in Burgundy to use […]
Vine disease carrier spreads to Valais
Incurable flavescence dorée disease carrier took 17 years to move from Geneva to heart of Valais GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A leafhopper that can carry an incurable disease which withers grapes and turns vine leaves yellow has reached canton Valais, and while it took 17 years to get there from Geneva, the news is not good. […]
Regional travel & wine: Switzerland’s surprising wines
Republished from GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Torches light the lovely 15th-century cobblestone courtyard, once a two- or three-hour carriage ride from Geneva. A hum of voices carries from an open cellar door where soft candlelight offers a glimpse of amphoras and barrels. Upstairs, in a renovated area of the old Grand’Cour château, Jean-Pierre Pellegrin describes […]