BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss wine producers have enjoyed the fruits of three excellent harvests in a row, with 2011 promising to make it four, but this doesn’t mean it’s easy to sell wine at a fair price, some argue. A group of 15 Geneva wine producers have banded together to start a Swiss national popular […]
Satigny
Savoie Philippe Chevrier: gourmet cruise on restored 1914 steamboat on Lake Geneva
Geneva’s star of stars: Chateauvieux chef Philippe Chevrier Philippe Chevrier of none other than the exclusive Domaine de Chateauvieux in Satigny has fond memories of childhood lake cruises in steamboats. It is therefore with nostalgic pleasure that he took on the task of organizing gourmet cruises on the steamboat Savoie in Geneva, commissioned in 1914 […]
Geneva’s wines show off their aging potential
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva’s winemakers, playing host this week to some of Switzerland’s top wine producers, Thursday evening presented a series of wines that show off the good aging potential of the canton’s wines. The annual meeting of the Memoire des Vins Suisse (MDVS), being held in Geneva Friday 27 March, was accompanied the […]
Wine drips
For some reason I always thought only restaurants used something to stop wine drips, until I had one too many drops of red wine on our wooden table. I used coasters, plates, and on bad days, the handiest magazine or newspaper. When I was in Kathy Meinen’s shop in Satigny I spotted packets of foil […]
Wine of the week: Geneva gem from greener days
I sit in the mountains and look out at the white, white world, with more snow than we’ve had in years. It’s lovely but when I came across photos from Satigny, taken 6 October 2008, I sighed with pleasure at the colours and remembered the smell of ripe grapes that hung over the village. I […]