Last night we checked out the Expovina, a week-long expo that allows one to sample wines from around the world in one convenient converted-warehouse location. For a nominal entrance fee of CHF 12, we were free to bounce from stand to stand, tasting as many wines as our palates could handle.
There were millions more wines on offer than we could have possibly sampled in one evening, so we focused on finding some good, affordable Swiss whites, which was surprisingly easy to do. Switzerland’s wines are usually poopooed by connoisseurs, but it’s really not such a bad place to find some flavorful, drinkable whites. And we’re no connoisseurs.
Most of our favorites ended up coming from Waadtland, the area on Lake Geneva between Nyon and Montreux. We intend to go back and order a case or two of a few of them, as soon as we remember which wines those were (or decipher our increasingly illegible notes in the margin of the catalog). I know there was a particular Blanc de Noir (white wine made from skinless pinot noir grapes) that I must have again.