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Vineyards in Spiez, Switzerland
A luscious lakeshore
Tumbling down to the blue water's edge, many hillsides in this charming Swiss village are quilted with vineyards like these. Grape growing is a millennium-old tradition here in Spiez, a small town on Lake Thun about 16 kilometres west of Interlaken. Started by the Romans as early as the 10th century, winemaking flourished here through centuries of changing times until a nasty plague of phylloxera wiped out the whole crop around 1900. The vineyards languished for decades, but persevering planters managed a successful harvest in the late 1920s, reviving a local industry that now corks up to 80,000 bottles a year.
A luscious lakeshore
Tumbling down to the blue water's edge, many hillsides in this charming Swiss village are quilted with vineyards like these. Grape growing is a millennium-old tradition here in Spiez, a small town on Lake Thun about 16 kilometres west of Interlaken. Started by the Romans as early as the 10th century, winemaking flourished here through centuries of changing times until a nasty plague of phylloxera wiped out the whole crop around 1900. The vineyards languished for decades, but persevering planters managed a successful harvest in the late 1920s, reviving a local industry that now corks up to 80,000 bottles a year.
Winemaking has been a tradition here ever since the Romans ran the town.
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