"Dave Smith" schrieb :
Nathalie Chiva wrote:



We spent a few days with relatives in Switzerland. He was British ad she
was French. They served French and German wines and said that the Swiss
wines were not very good.

Ahem...
http://www.vinessence.ca/index.php?id=92

I agree that Swiss wine can be expensive, but they can also be very
good... Switzerland is far from representing 10% of the world wine
production, but it does get 10% of medal in international wine
competitions.

Not to belittle their achievements, but I have to wonder about some of the
merit of winning medals. Lots of our local wines win international awards
too, but I was surprised a number of years ago when a really disgusting local
wines won a gold medal at a competition. There must have been a special
category for insipid sweet sauternes for that one to win.

Well, the Swiss won nine out of ten medals in the category :
"Nice try, but no cigar."

running for cover

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner