Cheese, chocolate, wine.
A private tour into French Switzerland, from Zurich.
This private tour crosses from Zurich into the French-speaking cantons for three things that are made within an hour of each other: Gruyere cheese at La Maison du Gruyere, chocolate at Maison Cailler, and wine on the Lavaux terraces above Lake Geneva. It runs nine to ten hours door to door with a private driver, and every tasting is arranged before you leave the city.
- Duration
- Nine to ten hours, from the moment we collect you to the moment you are back at the door.
- Pickup
- Zurich, or your hotel, whichever of the two is simpler on the morning.
- Group size
- Private for the whole of it, tastings included, with nobody added to the party.
- Season
- Two of the three stops are indoors, which makes this the day that holds up when the weather does not.
Cross into the French-speaking cantons and the country loosens. The road signs change, lunch takes longer, and three of the things Switzerland is most famous for are made within an hour of each other.
A nine to ten hour day out of Zurich, door to door, a private driver who guides as he goes, collection from the city or from your hotel. Tastings arranged in advance so nothing depends on turning up and hoping.
Written about this day
Across the language border, the Bernese Oberland is the German-speaking half of the same country, and Appenzell does cheese, beer and a painted village on a fraction of the driving. For the wider picture, see Switzerland.