Michel Rochat, the head of the École Hotelière de Lausanne, has been named president of the Office des Vins Vaudois, the canton’s wine promotion body. He succeeds Pierre Keller as of January 2019. Keller will have served in the part-time post for 8 years when he leaves; he has heavily promoted Vaud wines outside Switzerland, […]
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Oxford students blind-taste to near perfection in Lausanne
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Take a glass of red wine, a glass of white, give five university students 15 minutes to blind-taste them, discuss them and draw conclusions, then present in great detail the wines, for a jury that includes the World’s Best Sommelier 2013, Paolo Basso. This is what we saw Saturday night 22 March […]
Blind tasting at EHL’s gourmet restaurant
Lausanne’s prestigious hotel management school EHL is holding a blind wine tasting dinner on 2 June 2010 at 19H30 in its gourmet restaurant, Berceau des Sens, which is run by the EHL students. The hotel manager and students have chosen wines to go with each gourmet dish, but all wine tasting is “blind”. The person […]