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Swiss red wine consumption takes dip

22/04/2015 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Home consumption of Swiss wines down by 8.2% Swiss reds suffer surprising fall (also published on GenevaLunch.com) BERN, SWITZERLAND – Wine consumption in Switzerland dropped again in 2014, by 2.2 percent, confirming a 10-year trend despite a slight rise, 2 percent in 2013. The amount of Swiss wine consumed fell by 8.1 percent, a worrisome […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2014, imports, reds, sparkling, Switzerland, whites, wine consumption

Old is beautiful, and Swiss wines are no exception

05/03/2013 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss, for those who don’t know it yet, are very good at whipping up extraordinary gastronomic feasts. Switzerland has 100 Michelin starred restaurants in 2013, one of the highest per capita ratings in the world, and it has local wines that can hold their own at such meals. It’s not surprising, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: aging, Alexandre Truffer, Cave Maurice Zufferey, Chasselas, Chateau Mercier, Clos Domaines & Chateaux, cost, Crans-Montana, Cully, Denis and Catherine Mercier, Freres Dubois, Le Crans, MDVS, Memoire des Vins Suisses, Nuit des vieux millésimes, older vintages, Petite Arvine, reds, Rouvinez winery, Swiss wine

Swiss wines’ splendid neighbour: Côtes du Rhône

17/11/2011 by Ellen Wallace

2011 vintage: warm, deep cherry and plum notes await us after unusual year LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Good news arrived from France Monday, that 2011 wines from the Rhone Valley, after initial tastings, show wonderful promise. Grapes harvested at optimal ripeness are giving wines marked by fruitiness and warmth, with plum and deep cherry notes, verging […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2011 vintage, Cote du Rhone, Côte du Rhone region, France, Geneva, reds, Rhone valley, tasting 2010, upper Valais, Vaud, whites

Harvest is ending; let’s think reds

05/10/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The 2011 grape harvest promises to bring us some beautiful wines, but we’ll have to wait a while for them to mature in their barrels and tanks and then in their bottles next spring. Yesterday in canton Valais I spotted several vineyards where the harvest is still going on. Meanwhile, as the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: autumn, game, reds, romanduvin, video tasting notes

Vaud and Geneva announce cantonal wine awards

20/06/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Selections winners for Geneva and Vaud are out, and what a fine collection of wines they are! 2010 was a good year, we keep hearing, and sampling some of the winning wines last week confirmed this for me. I’ll add my notes on some of the wines in the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: awards, cantonal competitions, Cave Les Bossons, Dardagny, Les Hutins, Marcassin, Peissy, prizes, reds, roses, Sanglier, selection, Selection Geneva, Selection Vaud, Sweet wines, white, winners

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