LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Arvinis wine fair opens Wednesday evening 2 April and will pull in several thousand people before it closes Monday night 7 April. The sheer quantity of wine, some 2,500 from around the world at 150 stands, can be daunting. Where to start? Here are some tips on making your way through […]
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Let them drink wine! French fight binge drinking
France, like other European countries, is trying to work out how to best deal with teenage binge drinking and the latest advice from the experts is to offer wine tasting courses. Britain’s Guardian turned this into headline news, while France’s Le Monde relegated it to a small mention at the end of an article about […]
Winelovers: Changins course in English
Correction – 2 dates in 2010, even better! This is excellent news: the Changins Wine School (Ecole du vin de Changins), the best place around for learning to understand and appreciate wine, is offering its wine-tasting course in English for the first time. The school has just mailed out its 2010 course schedule and “Introduction […]
Geneva wine course coming up
The wine season is starting soon, with summer tasting sessions in villages giving way to fairs like Vinea in Sierre, several competitions, culminating in the Swiss Wine Grand Prix in Bern in October. The Swiss wine harvest, with the smell of ripe grapes hanging over villages, starts in September and runs to November in some […]