Wine fraud in Valais

Groan.

Back to the topicā€¦thank you for this post. It is a great suggestion for next year, why dream of a Napa Valley tour when we have so many things to do, here.

Letā€™s not let one fraud scandal spoil it for all Swiss wine producers!! Yes, dishonest players exist. But Iā€™m personally willing to enjoy what the good ones have to offer.

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Drinkable wines from there are even more expensive than enjoyable Swiss wines :sweat_smile:

Indeed, the open cellar days / caves ouvertes / cantine aperte / offene weinkeller are a great way to travel to very nice places around Switzerland.

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Probably. It would be for the experience as far as Iā€™m concernedā€¦ Iā€™m definitely not a wine ā€œconnoisseurā€ā€¦I can make the difference between a good wine and an inferior one, and can guess the grape varieties and origins (that is a very hazardous guess), but thatā€™s all.
Weā€™ve visited some vineyards in Italy and France and the wines you could buy directly from the producers werenā€™t that cheap either. But wines were superior to what you can get from a general store.

Didnā€™t visit any winery in Spain (yet), or Portugal, for that matter; and less inclined to do so if they continue with ā€œtourists go homeā€ mantra. :slight_smile: