When you think of wine, Switzerland is perhaps not the first country that pops into your mind, is it? Yet, wine bottles from as early as the 2nd century BC has been found here, so historians know wine has been produced in this land-locked mountainous country since Roman times, at least. The country’s largest continuous […]

Lavaux, Swiss wine country
Posted on 16 July 2014 by Anne-Sophie Redisch in Switzerland, UNESCO World Heritage
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