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The Mid-Autumn Festival in China celebrates the harvest time. For chinese people, this event is almost as important as the Chinese New Year, it also is the second most important holiday of the year. On this occasion Philippe Huser, owner of Napa Wine Bar in Shanghai, shipped 6000 bottles of Swiss wine which will be proposed to his customers on the Bund. 

Alongside Dôle, Fendant is the most well-known Swiss wine both at home and abroad. Many visitors discover it during their skiing holidays in the Valais region, while for Swiss natives, it's as much a part of daily life as a morsel of cheese.

Created in 1928, and Hong Kong's oldest hotel, the legendary "Grande Dame of the Far East" continues to set hotel standards worldwide, offering a blend of the best Eastern and Western hospitality in an atmosphere of unmatched classical grandeur and timeless elegance. A stay at the hotel allows you to re-live the glamour of travel of a by-gone era and explore the many antiques and historical artifacts on display around the hotel. The hotel also boasts 14 bespoke Rolls-Royce Phantoms. Like all great hotels around the world, the Peninsula offers various cuisines including a Swiss restaurant: the Chesa...

The Non-Filtré wine from the canton of Neuchâtel offers impatient wine lovers a pre-taste of the new vintage. When this speciality is bottled at the start of January without being filtered, the fermentation process is already complete.

Switzerland's vineyards hide in plain sight. It seems impossible that tourists driving around the compact country wouldn't notice the thousands upon thousands of green vines planted neatly across rows of stone terraces, yet Swiss winemakers report exactly that.

It sometimes surprises visitors that Switzerland produces wine at all. Swiss wine is produced in luxuriously small quantities, and just 2% of the wine is exported–most is consumed in-country by the Swiss and lucky holiday-makers. For visitors to the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, another surprise awaits: complex, versatile wines–including a white Merlot– perfectly suited to the hearty Italian-influenced foods of this mountainous region.

There’s more to Switzerland than watches, cuckoo clocks and chocolate… Discover world-class wines with a unique alpine character.

"It had been some time since I had tasted many Swiss wines, and I was truly excited by much of what I saw" - Jancis Robinson

The only relevant red grape variety planted in almost every canton, no matter if French-, Italian- or German-speaking, is Pinot Noir or Blauburgunder as it is called in the eastern, German-speaking part of Switzerland.

Lange Jahre war für uns Kinder der jährliche Familienurlaub in der Schweiz eine mäßig spannende Veranstaltung. In einer Zeit, in der Tennis noch boomte, standen wir morgens auf dem Court, am Nachmittag wanderte die Familie und ein, aus Kinder- und Teenagersicht, steifes Dîner war die Abendunterhaltung. Bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, an dem ich begann mit Hilfe der Weinkarte die Schweiz zu erkunden…