Geneva holds its wineries’ open house day this Saturday, 30 May, a great chance to discover some of the little treasure chest wines hidden there. Grape names you rarely hear in Switzerland, or at least not in French-speaking Switzerland, like Scheurebe, Kerner, Findling, Dunkelfelder and Cabernet Dorsaz, are on the wine lists of several wineries. […]
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Geneva’s new kosher wine on sale soon
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva now has a kosher wine, produced by David Sossauer at the Domaine des Pendus in Peney. Sossauer says he was intrigued by the project, the brainchild of wine merchant David Ouanounou, according to the Tribune de Genève, which devotes several lines to the elaborate procedure needed to harvest the grapes and make […]
Talking to Peter Greenberg about Swiss wine
Live streaming Saturday of the interview Peter Greenberg did with me a week ago, about Swiss wines. I’m keeping good company, with others interviewed for this show including President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, and author Anne Korkeakivi. Anne, by the way, just announced that her novel An American Family, […]
Before the Easter feast
We always had a light supper on Easter Saturday when I was growing up: it was the end of Lent in my Catholic household, but there was the promise of a big Easter Sunday dinner. It was a time for anticipation rather than celebration, which would come the next day. I always had a new […]
Gault & Millau, a bounty of Swiss goodness
Geneva’s Hôtel de la Paix is French area promotion of the year Sommelier of the Year: Jérôme Aké Béda BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Basel has the latest addition to Switzerland’s extraordinary collection of fine wine and food locations, with chef Peter Knogl named by Gault & Millau as its Swiss Chef of the Year 2015 at […]