10 years on, how well are these wines doing? The Mémoire des Vins Suisses has become so well known as a collection of some of the finest wine producers in Switzerland that it’s easy to forget the original idea behind the group was to create a bank of diverse Swiss wines with aging potential and […]
Memoire & Friends
Let the wine flow!
The wine world is back in the swing of things, with tastings and wine events galore in coming weeks. Like other wine writers, I’m in a whirlwind period – five days ago I checked out the renovated five-star Hotel Royal Savoy in Lausanne, whose terrace grand opening was celebrated with Vins Vaudois. I’m in Zurich […]
Zurich’s Memoire & Friends, the joy of aging
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – When youth and age mix well it’s a beautiful thing to behold. The Mémoire and Friends wine tasting event today allows wineries to show off their newest vintages to people in the Zurich area, but there are also some exceptional older wines on show. The Mémoire is a group of some of […]
Tasting Swiss wines in Zurich
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Every August the one-day Memoire & Friends wine tasting in Zurich pulls in a large crowd of industry professionals for an afternoon, followed by hundreds of wine-lovers as they head home from work. This year the event attracted 170 wine producers from Switzerland, including a small group of Swiss wineries from abroad. […]
Swiss wines step up marketing effort in Germany
Home crowd: Arvinis wine fair attendance slips, but sales up MORGES, SWITZERLAND – Marketing efforts for Swiss wines are being stepped up in Germany while at home the crowds turned out once again to meet the new vintages in Morges. The Arvinis wine fair closed its doors Monday night with atendance down slightly to around […]