The UK's Most Comprehensive Range of Swiss Wines
Welcome to our Swiss wine catalogue! We believe we offer the widest range of Swiss Wine in the UK.
Want to get to the wines? Scroll down to see a list of regions - click on these to go to the wine catalogue for each region.
Switzerland is renowned for beautiful scenery, lakes, mountains, cheese, chocolate, and punctual trains - but how many people know her wines? It would be surprising if many Britons were familiar with them, unless they have been to Switzerland, as they are largely unknown outside Switzerland. Very little wine is made, with just 14,900 hectares of vineyards in the entire country.
Furthermore, the Swiss keep their wine, and with such scarcity, almost all Swiss wine is consumed at home, with extremely little - maybe only 1% - being exported.
As such, it a real rarity abroad, and when found, quite a novelty. Yet Switzerland is a fascinating
winemaking country, with a wide repertoire of grape varieties and winemaking styles, and many truly world-class wines. With such variety and excellence, Swiss wines are a veritable treasure trove just waiting
to be discovered by UK wine-lovers. We offer a comprehensive range of high quality wines from the principal Swiss winegrowing regions of Geneva, Vaud, Valais, Grisons, and Ticino.
Swiss Wines - Where to Begin?
Where to begin? Not an easy question, as there is so much. For whites, look to the Vaud districts of Lavaux and Chablais for excellent Chasselas-based wines - seek out the wines of Aigle, with its fairytale castle, and St. Saphorin & Dézaley, where steep terraced vineyards plunge to Lake Geneva. Valais offers rare indigenous red and white varieties, Fendants, some of the best Pinot Noirs on earth, and Dole. Ticino excels at Merlot. For sheer diversity, and some of the best Swiss Gamays, Geneva is hard to beat. Swiss wines will never be a bargain, but for the best values, try the wines from the Co-operatives at Ollon in the Chablais and Corseaux in the Lavaux, Valaisan Dole & Fendant, and Geneva wines generally. Our mixed cases are a good place to start - ready-made selections which offer a good cross section of what Switzerland has to offer.
