Tradition is a hot word in wine marketing right now, one that reassures consumers - and yet few of us who are on the buying end of the sales chain question what it means, I think.If you have been […]
Home dining: Vaud cabbage sausage, Chasselas
Chandra Kurt's Chasselas book has encouraged me to try more well-aged Chasselas wines with typical foods from the Lake Geneva region. Last night it was the turn of a Vaud cabbage sausage (saucisse au […]
Bern’s wine fountain – and the taste?
You can tell when reporters are not wine journalists because they overlook the most important bit - how was the wine?! Bern has revived an old tradition and put wine in one of its famous city […]
Old vintages festival, night
This is the fifth annual Nuit des Vieux Millésimes and festival, two wonderful opportunities to explore older vintages of Swiss wines. The Night, 3 March, features restaurants with special menus […]
Terravin’s Chasselas top wines unveiled
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND - The Platine Terravin results are keenly awaited every year, just weeks after the harvest is in; the relatively new Mondial du Chasselas wine competition held in the summer […]
Eat your potatoes!
I'm astonished: it seems that we are throwing away more than half of our potatoes in Switzerland. A new report from ETH in Zurich shows that producers are wasting them, but consumers are the worst […]
Zurich’s Memoire & Friends, the joy of aging
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - When youth and age mix well it's a beautiful thing to behold. The Mémoire and Friends wine tasting event today allows wineries to show off their newest vintages to people in the […]
Top Swiss wines 2015 announced (update, list)
Winners list now availableGENEVA, SWITZERLAND - The wines that won gold and silver medals at the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse (GPVS), the Swiss wine national competition, have been announced, an […]
Three days judging Pinot wines: the album
Getting back to wine work for me meant a weekend with three days of wine judging in Sierre, canton Valais, at the Mondial des Pinots. Pinot Noirs, of course, but we also judged rosés and blanc de […]
Time for a Chasselas party!
Aigle is the place to be SaturdayThe awards for the winning Chasselas wines will be announced this evening, 26 June, and tomorrow will be given over to a public tasting session at the Château […]