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A little hand-holding for Arvinis

01/04/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Arvinis 2014, Bergerac, classes, spitting out wine, Swiss reds, wine fair, workshops, world wines in Switzerland

Let them drink wine! French fight binge drinking

05/03/2010 by Ellen Wallace

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 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: binge drinking, canteens, classes, courses, France, French, Introduction to wine tasting, report, students, universities, Valérie Pécresse, wine education, wine-tasting

Winelovers: Changins course in English

08/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

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 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2010 schedule, Changins Wine School, classes, courses, Introduction to wine tasting, Nyon, Switzerland, wine school, wine-tasting

Geneva wine course coming up

15/08/2007 by Ellen Wallace

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 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: classes, Geneva, Switzerland, wine courses

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