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Article: Wine appreciation: Chocolate, cheese and chasselas come up trumps for Swiss.
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- Investment Adviser
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- August 24, 2009
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Byline: Feargus O'Sullivan
People are often surprised to hear the Swiss make wine, as if cuckoo-clock production and money laundering were all the spiky-peaked alpine federation could manage. But make wine they do - around a million hectilitres a year, making our relatively puny production look like a summer puddle in comparison.
I'll admit that, as it's almost unknown in this country, detailing Swiss wine's intricacies might seem as topical to British readers as debating, say, the Chilean white goods market. Their industry's relative shadiness, however, is worth exploring as salutary evidence that that great bogeyman, the EU, is not automatically a bad ...