Travel by cable car up to alpine vineyards so beautiful Prince wrote a song about them, in a place that keeps the best wines all to itself.
The bespeckled figure of Marie-Therese Chappaz moves across the cliff face of her alpine vineyard with a practised, sure-footed assurance, but she's right to caution others.Stumble, and you might find yourself crashing through rows of Gamay or the local Petit Arvine grape on the way to a minutes-long fall and perhaps a helicopter rescue."I like what is difficult."That it even has an industry — let alone one of such compelling quality — might come as a surprise.
The nation's parliament recently tripled the amount it spends on promoting Swiss wine to Swiss consumers to 9 million euros in recognition of the changing dynamic."It's a very big issue," concedes the country's director of the Federal Office for Agriculture, Christian Hofer.The Swiss bureaucrat suggests the path forward for winemakers is to focus on quality — to celebrate the country's enviable growing conditions through regionally specific wines.
The artist Prince was seemingly so moved when he travelled through the Swiss wine region of Lavaux that heout of his car speakers as he drives past the surreal terraced vineyards of his neighbourhood.With Lake Geneva sitting in calm, crystalline beauty at its feet, there is undoubtably a cinematic quality to the UNESCO cultural heritage region.
At a natural wine festival in Zurich, down a graffitied alleyway and up a flight of industrial steps, a young crowd drinks their way through an array of brightly coloured, minimal intervention wines. Up a mountain in the southern alps of Valais, accessed via a rickety private cable car, you can find one of the few winemakers who endeavour to do just that.Marion Granges-Faiss was born in the valley below, and moved up the mountain when she married her late husband Jacques in 1971.
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