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2015 harvest: simply beautiful

10/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The weather gods have been good. The 2015 grape harvest is officially underway in many areas and we can now say it: very good to great wine grape quality in most parts of Switzerland, with a slight dip in quantity. The sun has been shining, the evenings have been cool, the rain […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2015 harvest, Agriloro, Catherine Mercier, Cave La Romaine, dryness, Electus, Flanthey, Francesco Tettamanti, Givrins, grape flowering, heat, Joel Briguet, La Colombe, Philippe Bovet, Provins, vendange, veraison

Harvesting grapes by machine

02/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The debate goes on: to harvest by hand or by machine. Some top-quality wine producers argue that machines just don’t cut it, that they are not as good at harvesting grapes as humans. Hand-crafted is undoubtedly always a good marketing line. But are consumers being bamboozled by it? Story continues below The […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: canton Vaud, grape harvest, hand, machines, Tartegnin, vendange

Harvest time, slow down!

30/09/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Grape harvesting has begun and you can expect slooooow traffic on secondary roads in all the grape-growing areas in Switzerland. Sign from a container for grapes harvested by machine, 30 September in Tartegnin, Vaud, and the entry to the village.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: harvest, signs, vendange

Autumn announced by migratory birds

26/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Autumn is here, four days after the official arrival, the 22 September equinox that occurred shortly before 16:00 last Saturday. Migratory birds are pausing to rest on Lake Geneva by the thousands en route from the northern Europe to southern homes where they winter, reports the Swiss Ornithological Institute, which has several […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: autumn, bird migrations, chestnut trees, collecting, Max stork, mushroom gathering, Switzerland, vendange, wine harvest

Swiss grape harvest begins, with 2009 promising to be a great year

17/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva/Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The grape harvest of 2009 has wine producers in Switzerland smiling, even though grape picking begins in earnest in Valais, the early starter and the largest wine-producing canton, only this weekend. It has been an excellent year for growers, comparable to 2005, one of the best years on record, say growers: […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2009 harvest, Food and Drink, Geneva, grapes, Lausanne, Neuchatel, picking, Sion, society, Swiss wine, Swiss wine producers, Valais, Vaud, vendange, winemakers

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