First time a Swiss wine gets the perfect Parker rating

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Surprise: For the first time in Swiss wine history, a winemaker has scored a perfect 100. This highest award went to Valais Marie-Thérèse Chappaz with the rare dessert wine Grain par Grain Petite Arvine Domaine des Claives from the 2020 harvest.

The magazine “Gault & Millau” emphasizes that this wine is quite affordable: you have to spend 400 francs to buy a bottle of wine, “compared to other excellent wines, some even in the four-digit range” .

In general, Swiss wines did very well.

The “The Wine Advocate” rating system uses a scale of 50 to 100 points. Reviews are prepared by expert journalists. For Swiss wines, the name of the man who makes the wine growers shake is Stephan Reinhardt.

He carefully tested 282 wines from all Helvetic wine regions (more precisely, 2020 and 2021 wines) – 30 from German-speaking Switzerland, 14 from Valais, nine from the Three Lakes Region, eight from Ticino, five from Vaud and Geneva. One . Of these, 216 exceeded the 90 point mark and 27 exceeded 95 points.

“The level of Swiss wines is on the rise. These top results confirm the outstanding international position of Swiss facilities. Swiss wines can compete with big foreign names thanks to their high quality. “Switzerland can be proud of its vineyards,” explains Nicolas Joss, director of the Swiss Wine promotion organisation.

A chance for the winemaker crowned by the wine guide

By the way, strictly biodynamically working Marie-Thérèse Chappaz has received numerous awards in the past. In 2015 the wine guide «Gault&Millau» awarded it the label «Icon of Swiss Wine». She received the Rural Women’s Creativity Award given by the Women’s Earth Summit Foundation in 2018. Three years later, the German-speaking Swiss Sommelier Association SVS/ASSP awarded him the title “Winemaker of the Year”.

Source : Blick