Valais

Wine regions – It is not know whether wine was grown in the Valais before Julius Cesar defeated the Gauls in the 1st century B.C., since there is no documentary evidence. It is assumed that over two millennia ago a wild vine was discovered, the Vitis sylvestris, whose fruit resembles other berries of this region.

It is not know whether wine was grown in the Valais before Julius Cesar defeated the Gauls in the 1st century B.C., since there is no documentary evidence. It is assumed that over two millennia ago a wild vine was discovered, the Vitis sylvestris, whose fruit resembles other berries of this region.

Cheesy potato cakes on leek salad

Recipes Betty Bossi – A new interpretation of the classic pie from the Valais known as “cholera”.

A new interpretation of the classic pie from the Valais known as “cholera”.

Cholera

Recipes Betty Bossi – Puff Pastry – A Valaisian Art Form

A world of good taste

Culinary regions –

The taste of authenticity.

The flavours and sights of the Valais surpass mere eating and drinking to include the residents’ joie de vivre that informs their exceptional gastronomic inventiveness and the time-honoured traditions of Switzerland’s largest winemaking canton.

Top wines and gastronomic traditions.

From the Rhone glacier down to Lake Geneva, from small villages on steep mountainsides to Sion, the historic capital of the canton at the foot of the rocky hills of Tourbillon and Valeria, a gastronomic journey through the Valais has unlimited diversity.