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SWP - Les 25 meilleurs Merlots de Suisse

Grand concours pour les producteurs, distributeurs et importateurs de vins issus du cépage Merlot pur ou d’assemblage à base de Merlot, sous les patronages de l’OIV, de l’UIOE, de l’USOE et membre de VINOFED.

Le Mondial du Merlot&Assemblages, organisé par VINEA, a vu la participation de 420 vins de plus de 230 producteurs de 22 pays différents. Le jury qui a siégé à Sierre Suisse a décerné 42 médailles d’Or à des crus d’exception et une médaille Grand Or – la plus haute distinction – à un merlot d’Uruguay.

 

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SWP - Discover the new vintage at the Swiss open wineries 2016

Swiss Wine Promotion is pleased to announce the next Swiss open wineries event to be held over four weekends in six different wine regions across the country between April 29 and May 29, 2016.

 

More than 100,000 visitors

What began in Geneva and the German speaking part of Switzerland as a regional event has become the national meeting for producers and their audience. More than half of Swiss producers participate and attract more than 100,000 people each year.

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SWP - Des suisses aux Meilleurs Chardonnay du Monde

La 23e confrontation qualitative des meilleurs Chardonnay du Monde s’est déroulée du 8 au 11 mars 2016 dans le cadre du Château des Ravatys, Domaine Viticole de l’Institut Pasteur à Saint Lager, ville internationale de la vigne et du vin, au cœur de l’appellation Brouilly au pied du Mont Brouilly en Bourgogne viticole. De nombreuses caves suisses y ont participés et glânés des médailles.

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SWP - A great Swiss Wine ambassador has left us

The death of Benoît Violier leaves the Swiss wines orphans. This great leader –of French origin- loved Switzerland to the point of becoming Swiss, just one year ago. "We are Swiss! When we travel around Europe (my wife and I), we are (called) the Swiss," he confided to Darius Rochebin during a very emotional recent TV interview, joking about the French media who rarely mentioned his dual nationality...

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SWP - Robert Parker rates Chasselas wines for the first time

Robert Parker's magazine rated wines from the indigenous Swiss grape Chasselas (or Fendant) produced mainly in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Stephan Reinhardt, the appointed critic of this important magazine in the world of wine, tasted a hundred of our Chasselas - 20 got 87 points and more. The most rated estate of this tasting is the Domaine Louis Bovard in Cully.

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