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.