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Swiss vineyards

Winter wine travels in Switzerland

09/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Be a tourist in Swiss vineyards in the winter! You’ll see the true landscape of Swiss wine: extraordinary geography and human hands meet, a continuation of a culture that reaches far back in time.

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Bex, CFF/SBB, Chateau de Chillon, Chateau de Ravire, Denens, Fully, Geneva, Lavigny, Miège, Ollon, Stalden, Swiss trains, Swiss vineyards, Valais, Vaud, Vispa River, wine tourism, winter tourism, Zermatt

Climate change, what Swiss producers say

19/08/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Climate change is on the mind of everyone in the wine business, not just the short-term reactions to weather but the longer-term concerns about what grape varieties will work and how to manage them. Last weekend I visited the Maison Blanche in Yvorne with a group of judges from the Mondial des […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: climate change, Didier Joris, Jean Daniel Suardet, Maison Blanche, Swiss vineyards, Vivien Zufferey, Yvorne

Droning their way to great grapes

01/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Swiss vineyards take drones to new level GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Vineyards have been using drones regularly for aerial photography for some years, mainly in the US and Australia, but a Swiss pilot project is taking drones to new heights – not literally, but in terms of their technological prowess. This week a surprising Swiss trio […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Chateau de Châtagneréaz, drones, EPFL, harvest, infrared, Mont-sur-Rolle, precision viticulture, SenseFly, soil, Swiss vineyards, water

Suzukii strikes fear at Swiss wineries

18/09/2014 by Ellen Wallace 5 Comments

Don’t make forecasts about the 2104 harvest just yet! Two months ago a wine producer from canton Valais suddenly turned to me at a crowded dinner where the conversation had been fairly lighthearted. He frowned and said, “we’re worried about Suzukii, not the car, but the new bug.” I gave him a blank look, so […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: canton Valais, cherry vinegar fly, Daniel Dufaux, Drosophila suzukii, fruit, pest, spotted wing drosophila, Suzukii, SWD, Swiss vineyards, Xavier Bagnoud

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