A group of wineries in the Morges area in canton Vaud has created an offer to make it easier for visitors to sample wines. English-speakers, you will be happy to know they are doing this in English as well as French – I’ve been told they would love to welcome more of the international population […]
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Five wines for Chinese visitors
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 […]
Arvinis kicks off Swiss spring wine tastings
2-7 April in Morges Ellen’s Wine World: “Sensory pleasure of Swiss reds” LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The wine-tasting spring and summer season begins next week with the now-established tradition of the Arvinis wine fair in Morges. This is the 19th year for the privately-run fair that hosts 2,500 wines from around the world, including a large […]
Morges wine fair, Arvinis, opens Swiss wine season
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Arvinis opens officially Wednesday evening 17 April in Morges, the unofficial start to the wine-tasting season in Switzerland. The fair, held at the CFF Halle next to the train station in Morges, attracts some 20,000 people every year during its five-day run. Visitors pay CHF35 for a glass that they carry around […]
Summer suggestion: vineyard train and Morges dahlias in bloom
MORGES, SWITZERLAND – Morges is a lovely town of some 15,000 souls, on the lakefront about 15km from Lausanne. Those who explored it during the April-May tulip festival for which it is famed can now enjoy another flower outing: the dahlias along the quays have flowered. The colours are magnificent and it gives you a […]