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Vaud tallies results of 5 year pilot wine tourism project
Switzerland has been a laggard for wine tourism, which has been successfully expanding in France and Italy for several years. France, for example, went from 7.5 million wine tourists in 2009 to more than 10 million in 2016 – with an increase of 40% more foreign tourists. Wineries everywhere are suffering from greater competition and […]
Commenting on Washington Post article on Swiss wines
The Washington Post carries an article about Swiss wine, which is nicely written and some good wines are listed, plus it draws the attention of a wider audience to Swiss wines, all to the good. It also has all the usual clichés (chocolate, cheese, tiny number exported, etc.) that you get when a writer helicopters […]
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PLEASE NOTE: ELLEN’S WINE WORLD MOVED TO Substack IN 2022. THESE PAGES ARE NOW ARCHIVES ONLY. COMMENTS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED. YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW NEWSLETTER DIRECTLY ON SUBSTACK. Ellen Wallace on the landscape of Swiss wine: I had my first glass of Chasselas in Vevey in the early 1980s. I quickly fell […]
Swiss wine news: new image for Cave de la Côte
Vaud cooperative making strong comeback Cave de la Côte in Tolochenaz, near Morges, is one of Switzerland’s largest wineries and a highly regarded cooperative, for some years now one of the pioneers that has helped us redefine positively what it means to be a coop. Head oenologist Rodrigo Banto has been making award-winning wines […]