Our Swiss Adventure: Lavaux How I Love Thee

About a month ago Kevin, Mya, & I went back to the Lavaux region of Switzerland for an overnight trip. Lavaux is part of the French speaking region of Switzerland and boasts 830 hectares of terraced vineyards along Lake Geneva. We had driven through it during our Easter road trip to Lyon when the vineyards were bare, so we were excited to see how this magical place transformed in the summer...

On the walk from the Chexbres-Village train station to our hotel Prealpina.

Having a lil' cappuccino on the hotel terrace before we start our hike.

First photo-op of the hike.

It didn't take long for us to find our first stop - Constant Jomini winery...

Cute vine labels

If you have some extra cash lying around, you can purchase a vine and your name will be placed on the label. You'll also have exclusive rights to the bottles produced from those vines, and once a year you and your fellow ballers get a private tour of the vineyard, caves, and cellars. One day....

They have this incredible terrace right smack in the middle of their vineyard, and we of course had to check it out for some lunch and tastings.

The pizza oven

Our table

We were lucky to stumble upon the terrace as they only have it open 12 days of the year & by chance someone didn't show up for their reservation. Score!

The man himself - Constant Jomini. He was awesome and chatted with us for a bit. Turns out when he was a teenager his family went on vacation to Tobago and they stopped off in Orlando on the way. As Kev is from sweet T&T and lived in Orlando before starting college he felt a connection. Bromance aside, we had an amazing time in his vineyard and ended up staying a couple of hours enjoying the views and tasty wines. Of course we ordered some bottles to be shipped back to Zurich. We also bought a to-go bottle for our hike. Being the great guy that he is, Constant gave us a wine key and two tasting glasses for our journey.

Walking out of the terrace.

About 10 min into our "hike" we found a spot to crack her open.

Can you blame us?

Onward to the next glass.

I could totally live here.

This looks like a good spot for round 2.

Yeah, it'll do.

Glass #2

See the people in the back with the white convertible? Small world again, they were blasting Alison Hind's "Roll it Girl". We chatted with them for a bit, they were Brits living in Zurich who happened to love soca. Needless to say they were shocked to meet a white boy from Trinidad.

Second Tasting

This little hut is set up as a stop for the Lavaux Express - a tourist train that takes you around the vineyards. I forget the name of the winery, but it was very cool sampling wines from the very vineyard you're standing in.