{"id":4293,"date":"2025-01-06T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:31:50","slug":"grand-prix-du-vin-suisse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/blog\/grand-prix-du-vin-suisse\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix du Vin Suisse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:1.75rem\">Best of Grand Prix du Vin Suisse<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Grand Prix du Vin Suisse is the largest and most prestigious wine award in Switzerland, the Champions League for Swiss winegrowers. Every year, over 500 wine producers from 18 cantons compete with more than 3,000 wines submitted. <\/p>\n\n<p>An international jury of experts will select 78 final wines (nominations) from the wines submitted, which will compete in the final round in 13 different categories for one of the coveted category wins.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_diego_nadia_cedric_siegerehrung-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Diego, Nadia and Cedric at the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse award ceremony\" class=\"wp-image-3061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_diego_nadia_cedric_siegerehrung-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_diego_nadia_cedric_siegerehrung-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_diego_nadia_cedric_siegerehrung-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_diego_nadia_cedric_siegerehrung-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_diego_nadia_cedric_siegerehrung-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:1rem;font-size:1.5rem\">Best Swiss winery of the year<\/h3>\n\n<p>The Adrian &amp; Diego Mathier Nouveau Salquenen winery can look back on no fewer than 50 nominations and 13 category wins, 9 second places and 8 third places in 14 participations. In 2007, Diego Mathier was the first Swiss winemaker to receive the award for Best Swiss Winemaker of the Year. Two further awards followed in 2011 and 2018. The highest accolade for many years of consistency was the award for Best Swiss Winery of the Decade in 2016.   <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_weingut_des_jahres_2018-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Winery of the Year 2018 award at the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse\" class=\"wp-image-3055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_weingut_des_jahres_2018-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_weingut_des_jahres_2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_weingut_des_jahres_2018-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_weingut_des_jahres_2018-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_weingut_des_jahres_2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:1rem;font-size:1.5rem\">Coup de coeur &#8211; Prix Vinissimo<\/h3>\n\n<p>The Coup de coeur special prize is also awarded annually in the white and red wine categories. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathier-shop.com\/en\/wine-varieties\/red\/syrah\" rel=\"noopener\">Syrah Diego Mathier<\/a> was awarded this prize twice as the jury&#8217;s favorite wine. In the white wine category, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathier-shop.com\/en\/heida-les-pyramides-75-cl\" rel=\"noopener\">Heida Les Pyramides<\/a> received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/awards\/\">coveted Prix Vinissimo award<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n<p>This success story is unique in the history of the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse and is an incentive for continuous quality work in the vineyard as well as in the wine cellar. The Grand Prix du Vin Suisse is a joint project of the VINEA association in Sierre and the European wine magazine VINUM to promote quality and Swiss wine. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_toechter_mathier-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Mathier&#039;s daughters at the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse celebration\" class=\"wp-image-3064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_toechter_mathier-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_toechter_mathier-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_toechter_mathier-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_toechter_mathier-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/best_of_gpvs_toechter_mathier.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:1rem;font-size:1.13rem\">A brief overview of the main titles:<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Best Swiss Winemaker of the Year 2007 &#8211; 2011 &#8211; 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best Swiss winery of the decade<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prix Vinissimo white Heida Les Pyramides AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2x Prix Vinissimo red Syrah Diego Mathier AOC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:1rem;font-size:1.13rem\">13 Swiss Champion titles, spread across:<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1x Fendant du Ravin AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2x Cuv\u00e9e Madame Rosmarie Mathier white AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1x Heida Les Pyramides AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1x L&#8217;Ambassadeur de Domain Diego Mathier white AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1x Pinot Noir R\u00e9serve de Salquenen AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3x Cuv\u00e9e Mmadame Rosmarie Mathier red AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2x Syrah Diego Mathier AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1x Gemma C\u00e9pages nobles TOPAS AOC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1x Gemma Ermitage Rubin AOC VS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Prix du Vin Suisse evaluates wines from 500 producers from 18 cantons &#8211; over 3,000 wines are included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wine-magazine","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19486,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/19486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}