Alexandre Truffer, a young and excellent Swiss wine writer, is coming out with a book on the best wines from French-speaking Switzerland that will be available in bookstores 22 March – I’ll be carrying a review of Vins de suisse romande here next week, as I’m keen to see which are his favourites, but more […]
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Let them drink wine! French fight binge drinking
France, like other European countries, is trying to work out how to best deal with teenage binge drinking and the latest advice from the experts is to offer wine tasting courses. Britain’s Guardian turned this into headline news, while France’s Le Monde relegated it to a small mention at the end of an article about […]
Winelovers: Changins course in English
Correction – 2 dates in 2010, even better! This is excellent news: the Changins Wine School (Ecole du vin de Changins), the best place around for learning to understand and appreciate wine, is offering its wine-tasting course in English for the first time. The school has just mailed out its 2010 course schedule and “Introduction […]
Cave Berthaudin wine tasting at Beau Rivage
The Rambling Epicure covered this Cave Berthaudin’s spring wine tasting and gala dinner at the Beau Rivage in Ellen Wallace’s blog Among the vines.
When the blind lead the blind to a glass
Photo: Had we been able to see our wine it would have looked a bit like this. Six journalists lined up inside the Town Hall of Sierre, Valais Sunday to do a truly blind wine tasting. We put our left arms on the shoulders of the people in front of us, someone closed a pair […]