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The 5th edition of the Swiss Wine Tourism Meetings and the national “Best Of Wine Tourism” competition took place this Friday, 2 September at the Château d'Aigle, in Aigle (VD). These events brought together, in a full hall, professionals and enthusiasts wanting to know more about wine tourism. The Swiss Wine Tourism Meetings took place under the sign of gastronomy and the interregional federation. The “Best Of Wine Tourism” rewarded seven Swiss wine tourism experiences.

Swiss Wine Promotion (SWP), the national promotion body for Swiss wines, continues to expand its presence in China, in collaboration with the Swiss Centers, by creating official accounts on the Chinese social networks WeChat and Weibo.

From June 6^th to 12^th, Swiss Wine will take over New York City for the first edition of the Swiss Wine Week. Thanks to a partnership with Switzerland Tourism a promotional video about swiss wines will be broadcast on Times Square. Additionally five tastings in restaurants and wine shops will be organised by Winembassy and led by Christy Canterbury, Master of Wine.

As agreed with the City of Lausanne and the Vaud Œnotourisme association (AVOE), the management of the activities of Lausanne Great Wine Capitals will be entrusted to Swiss Wine Promotion (SWP) for the extended representation of all Swiss vineyards. A partnership agreement was signed for this purpose at the 219th Lausanne Wine Auction.

The now famous London wine club has been given the opportunity to open another venue in Verbier. It will have the largest wine list in the region and a complete selection of la Memoire des vins suisses.

London, November 25th, 2021. The Swiss Embassy and 67 Pall Mall have put together an event celebrating the wines of Switzerland. 

Swiss Wine Promotion and the Swiss Centers Group signed a partnership agreement with the goal of boosting Swiss wines in the Chinese market.

Golden boar award sees double!

The 22nd annual Sélection des Vins de Genève awards were held Thursday 8th of July at Geneva’s Palexpo in the presence of a reduced but enthusiastic crowd from the worlds of hotels and restaurants, tourism and the wine industry.

The results of the 28th Concours Mondial have now been released. Although the pandemic continues and organising large-scale events remains challenging, the competition has chosen to reinvent itself in the interests of the wine industry, whilst at the same time maintaining its impeccable standards. Over nine days, more than 300 international judges took turns to taste the wines.

At this year’s Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in Luxembourg from June 17 to 27, a total 10,000 wines were entered by 46 producer countries.

On Thursday evening, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine presented the outstanding award winners of the 2020 Edition of the OIV Awards. The laureates: authors, website creators and publishing houses presented their work rewarded by the Jury which granted a total of 19 Prizes and 10 Special Mentions to 26 books and 3 websites.

Websites make a significant entry in the OIV Awards due to the quality of the publications awarded.