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 […]
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Winemaker of the Year from Ticino, top wine Valais and organic from Geneva
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 […]
Creative tourist marketing in a tough, tough market
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 […]
Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2011 named
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 […]
Mondial du Pinot Noir, a judge’s pleasures
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 […]