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Swiss wine tourism comes of age

24/06/2018 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

This could be a watershed year for Swiss wine, the year when wine tourism comes of age. Lausanne in March became one of the world’s 10 Great Wine Capitals, a network of wine centres that is behind the five-year-old International Best of Wine Tourism awards. Switzerland’s first awards, whose winners compete in the international awards, […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Amigne on the road, Arvinis, Best of Wine Tourism Awards, canton Vaud, Expovino, Féchy, Festival du Chasselas, Fête des Vignerons 2019, Geneva, Great Wine Capitals, Musée Valaisan du vin, Open cellar days, Pfyn-Finges Nature Park, Russin, Suisse oenotourisme, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss Wine Tourism, Vétroz, Vinea, Vinorama, Visit French Wine

Swiss wine news

09/09/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

In brief: the Chateau de Chillon near Montreux has won the first Swiss wine tourism award. The awards given in Cully 8 September included: honorable mention to Lavaux Patrimoine Mondial , “Event” award to Weinweg Weinfelden (Thurgau) and for “Gastronomy”, the Moulin de Cugy. Canton Vaud continues its charm campaign in Japan, building a high-end following […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: canton Vaud, Chasselas, Chateau de Chillon, Epesses, Japan, Les Cent Suisses, Obrist

The organic orgy

18/10/2016 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

We’re all going to the organic ball Imagine giving a party where you invite everyone you know and tell them to bring their friends. “Be prepared to strip down to the bare essentials, or less.” A lot of them find a good excuse to stay away, right? But those who show up can’t stop crowing […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: bio, canton Vaud, copper, France, organic wine, trends

2013 was as bad as we thought, for Vaud vineyards

10/12/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Vines suffered – but the wine is very good! LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The weather catastrophes in 2013 left a strong mark on canton Vaud’s vineyards, and now we have the statistics from the canton to prove it. Only 21 million litres of wine were made, a 28 percent drop compared to the average for the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: canton Vaud, Chasselas, Gamaret, Garanoir, hail damage, statistics, vintage 2013

Harvesting grapes by machine

02/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The debate goes on: to harvest by hand or by machine. Some top-quality wine producers argue that machines just don’t cut it, that they are not as good at harvesting grapes as humans. Hand-crafted is undoubtedly always a good marketing line. But are consumers being bamboozled by it? Story continues below The […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: canton Vaud, grape harvest, hand, machines, Tartegnin, vendange

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