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Fribourg

Five wines for Chinese visitors

24/06/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Last week I gave a presentation on Swiss wines and led a tasting session of five wines from western Switzerland  for a group of 30 Chinese managers from Harbin. They are following a three-week intensive course at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz’s International Programme in Solothurn. Strong interest, lively discussions and wonderful questions all around. Here are […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Chamoson, Chasselas, Dôle, Domaine des Muses, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz's International Programme, Féchy, Fribourg, Henri Cruchon, Morges, Muscat, Oeil de Perdrix, Pinot Noir, Servagnin, Sierre, Valais, Vaud, Vully

Falling in love again: Vully

02/05/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

There are many wonderful things about wine, not least of which it allows you to keep falling in love! Occasional bouts of jealousy among the lovers is completely manageable, happily. Yesterday I fell in love yet again, this time with the Swiss region of Vully and in particular with the village of Môtier, which must […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Charlemagne, Fribourg, Le Petit Chateau winery, Morat, Motier, Terravin, Vaud, Vully

How the cantons fare: finalists in the Swiss wine competition

23/08/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, while not a competition that pits one canton against another, serves as a kind of register for how well wines from the six main wine regions fared against those from other parts of the country. The 2012 distribution of Swiss wine finalists by region and canton […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Basel, cantons, Fribourg, Geneva, Gruabuenden, Neuchatel, Ticino, Valais, Vaud, wine regions, Zurich

Fribourg, Geneva, Vaud chocolate week tastings

04/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – You still have a couple days left to sample artisanal chocolates and buy them at a discount at several chocolate boutiques in the region. Chocolate Week, the brainchild of Neuchatel’s chocolate-makers several years ago, was adopted by Vaud five years ago and more recently by Fribourg and Geneva. The idea is […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alexandre, artisanal, Boillat, bouchons, Bougy-Villars, chocolate, Chocolate week, dark, Fribourg, Geneva, handcrafted, handmade, Lausanne, Morges, myrte, myrtille, pecans, Saint Prex, sesame, Switzerland, Tristan, Vaud

Swiss road news: tunnel death in Locarno, high speed in Fribourg

23/03/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – One person died, another was taken to hospital by helicopter and is reported to be in serious condition and several other people were injured Monday morning when a truck and three cars were involved in an accident in Locarno, reports ats/20 Minutes. The crash took place on the autoroute ring road, which […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: car crashes, Fribourg, Lucarno, safety, seat belts, speeding, Swiss roads, travel

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