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Terravin’s Chasselas top wines unveiled

20/11/2015 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

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 hasn’t taken any of the shine off this annual event that puts the spotlight on some of Switzerland’s best Chasselas wines. This year’s winner […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News, Wineries Tagged With: Bolles, Chasselas, competition, Croix Duplex, Féchy, Filet d'Or, Grandvaux, Hôtel de Ville Crissier, Morges, Platine, quality label, Terravin, Vaud, Violier

Winemaker of the Year from Ticino, top wine Valais and organic from Geneva

23/10/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Number one wine is from Valais and best organic wine from Geneva BERN, SWITZERLAND – Head for Valais for the best bottle of wine in the country, a Johannisberg from Chamoson, but go to Ticino if you want to sample the collection from the top winemaker in Switzerland. And Geneva is home to the best […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bern gala event, blends, Chamoson, Choulex, Claudio Tamborini, competition, Domaine de Miolan, Domaine du Cretacombe, Geneva, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse 2012, judges, Lamone winery, Merlot, Mueller-Thurgau, red, Riesling, rosé, sparkling, sweet, Swiss wine national awards, top Swiss wines, Valais, white

Creative tourist marketing in a tough, tough market

02/10/2012 by Ellen Wallace

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The tourist industry in Switzerland is arguably suffering more than any other business area from the too-long too-strong Swiss franc, so hat’s off to the Swiss Convention & Incentive Bureau for clearly selling the pleasure and beauty of Swiss travel to a key group, incentive business travel managers. If  you’re not already […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: competition, incentive travel, Switzerland, Switzerland Meeting Trophy, tourism

Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2011 named

25/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Top awards for Swiss wines go to mix of new and old producers BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Winemaker of the Year for 2011 is Diego Mathier from Salquenen/Salgesch (cellar: Nouveau Salquenen) in canton Valais who previously won the coveted award in 2007. He was named at a gala dinner Tuesday night 25 October in […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2011, award, awards, Begnins, best Swiss wines, blind tastings, competition, Diego Mathier, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Maurice Zufferey, most points overall, organic wines, Reynald Parmelin, Salgesch, Salquenen, Swiss Winemaker of the Year

Mondial du Pinot Noir, a judge’s pleasures

27/08/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’m just about recovered from the three days of intensive work 19-21 August as a judge at the international wine competition in Sierre, the Mondial du Pinot Noir. We tasted and noted 1,314 wines from 21 countries around the world; we were 50 judges from 30 countries who worked for three mornings […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: competition, gold winners, judges, Mondial du Pinot Noir, MPN, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Sierre, Switzerland, Vinea

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