Beyond Neutrality: the Many Terroirs of Switzerland’s Chasselas
By Daniella Blake
I SIGNED UP FOR the 2023 vendange in the village of Yvorne in the Swiss canton of Vaud, where grape-picking is an extreme sport. As the peaks of the Alps above caught the first sun, our team of Polish, Italian, and Ukrainian workers braced against the steep slope, backs and knees bent, and cut the Chasselas grapes and dropp…