Lavaux
Lavaux is a terraced vineyard landscape above Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey. The heritage association describes its cultivation as extending over more than a thousand years. About 180 winegrowing families cultivate Chasselas and maintain its terrace walls.
Lavaux
Lavaux is a terraced vineyard landscape above Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey. The heritage association describes its cultivation as extending over more than a thousand years. About 180 winegrowing families cultivate Chasselas and maintain its terrace walls.
Editorial interpretation: the relationship between viticulture and maintained walls offers a way to read Lavaux as a landscape of continuing work. Its terraces can be considered through the practices that sustain them as well as their appearance above the lake.
Written by Le Roi du Vin. It sets out what is documented, not what is worth seeing.
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