Big news for canton Vaud – and Switzerland – is that Aigle will host the 2019 Bruxelles wine competition, one of the world’s largest. The event will bring some 300 judges to Aigle to taste 9,000 wines from 2 to 5 May 2019 at the World Cycling Center in Aigle. The choice was announced as […]
Swiss wine
Zap! Ticino sommelier’s speedy champagne uncorking
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s Mirko Rainier has just entered the Guinness World Records , reports Swiss public broadcaster RTS (you won’t yet find him officially listed there), for uncorking 47 bottles of champagne in one minute, using a saber. Rainier, sommelier and manager of the Atenaeo del vino restaurant in Mendrisio, canton Ticino, carried out […]
Study: wine labels influence our judgement
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wine labels influence our decisions about buying wines, but they also affect how we assess wines we taste, a new Swiss study shows. Seeing the label may have up to a 60 percent impact on our evaluation of a wine we taste, Pascale Deneulin, senorial analysis professor at the Changins Agroscope federal […]
Vaud 1er Grand Cru 2014
Colour: white Grape: Chasselas Name: “Au Fosseau” Vaud 1er Grand Cru 2012 Winery: Le Capitaine Location: Begnins, canton Vaud Robe: pale gold Nose: floral, delicate Mouth: Typically mineral Remarks: The 2012 lacks some of the complexity of the 2011, but like its older brother is a wine that will keep well: drink it now and […]
How to learn French in a hurry: drink Swiss wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’ve been following Ta-Nehisi Coates’s rollercoaster ride to speaking perfect French – he writes for The Atlantic, and I’m an old fan of the magazine. I suddenly realized he was going to be spending four days in Montreux, a serious crash course to maitriser la langue even though my sense of Montreux […]