Title: Geneve-Saveurs gastronomy workshops Location: Geneva, route de Lausanne Link out: Click here Description: Workshops and tasting sessions: oils, wine, chocolate and more with some of Switzerland’s top experts Start Date: 28 Feb 2009 Start Time: 10:00 End Date: 01 Mar 2009
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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: perfect Swiss holiday aperitif
What a pleasant surprise to discover that one of the special offers at the Coop is a wine that enchanted me last July – and that it’s just as good in winter as in summer. The Bonvins are a large clan in Valais and not surprisingly, many of them do indeed make good wine. In […]
Wine of the week: Pinot Noir, while Thanksgiving wine debate rages
Updated 27 November 21:55 If you haven’t yet opened a bottle of wine for your Thanksgiving dinner (and plenty of Americans in Switzerland celebrateon Saturday instead of today, in order to have time to cook a large meal), let the New York Times help you out. The newspaper did a survey of who is writing […]
GenevaLunch on wine, turkeys and sports nutrition
From the editor: the second part of the article on Switzerland’s 66 top wines, adapted from l’Hebdo, will be delayed to Thursday afternoon due to technical problems. If you haven’t yet checked out our most recent features and interviews (always below the international news on the home page), this is a great time to do […]