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A wine glass with swirling red wine against a mountainous dusk backdrop

A woman wearing green shirt and thick rimmed glasses fixes her hair amid vineyard on a sunny day
Marie-Therese Chappaz at her vineyard in Fully.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A series of dramatically tiered vineyards elevating up the side of the mountain
The Combe d'Enfer, or Valley of Hell, is a dramatically steep series of vineyards in Valais.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
A woman wearing a green coloured top and jeans walks down grassed slop holding on to cable car cables toward a vineyard
A private cable car runs through the middle of the vineyard.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Cables for a cable car extend over the edge of a green mountain ledge looking down onto a town beneath
The vineyards at Domaine Chappaz are accessed via cable car.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
A woman wearing green shirt and thick rimmed glasses stands smiling above vineyards on a sunny day
Marie-Therese Chappaz at her vineyard in Fully.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Cattle graze across a picturesque mountain top range with large mountains in background
Switzerland's agriculture is often set amid dramatically picturesque scenery.(ABC News Jeremy Story Carter)

A woman wearing green shirt and thick rimmed glasses stands smiling amid vineyard on a sunny day
Marie-Therese Chappaz at her vineyard in Fully.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A network of green vineyards staggered up the side of a hillside
Vineyards in Valais, Switzerland's biggest wine region.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Cattle graze across a picturesque mountain top range with large mountains in background
Switzerland's agriculture is often set amid dramatically picturesque scenery.(ABC News Jeremy Story Carter)

A woman wearing green shirt and blue jeans holds a bunch of green and purple grapes amid a dappled light vineyard
At the Domaine Chappaz, they grow 25 different grape varieties.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A woman wearing green shirt and thick rimmed glasses turns away and walks toward a barn in a vineyard
Marie-Therese Chappaz next to the old winemakers cottage on her vineyard.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Man wearing glasses and an a brimmed hat sits on log with alpine setting in background
José Vouillamoz is a wine geneticist, researcher and staunch advocate for Swiss viticulture.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

An old knotty vine root twisting in dappled light
Some of the vines at Domaine Chappaz are over 100 years old.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Red wine grapes hanging on a vine in dappled light
Wine grapes on the vine in Valais.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A man wearing purple shirt and hat sits amid lush green vines tending to grapes
Labour costs are among a range of factors that push up the price of Swiss wine.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A picturesque small Swiss village street at sunset with balconies, a clock and a Swiss flag.
There is a tension around how much the Swiss value their country's wine.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Two shirtless male workers in agricultural setting with mountainous vineyards in the background
Swiss winemakers are increasingly being forced to contend with imports from neighbouring countries.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A network of green vineyards is intersected by two roads, with a small town in the distance
Vineyards in Valais, Switzerland's biggest wine region.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A window out of an agricultural farmhouse looking back over vineyards to a small town
The view from the Domaine Chappaz farmhouse looking back toward the Valais region.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A row of old wine barrels inside a cave like cellar illuminated by a row of lights
Wine barrels in the Domaine Chappaz cellar.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A window out of an agricultural barn looking back down to a small town
The view from the Domaine Chappaz winemaker's barn looking back toward Fully.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

An archway in the foreground with a house and vineyards and mountains in the background
The small village of Fully sits amid a network of vineyards.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Vineyards down the side of a steep mountain with a road with cars and a clear blue lake at the bottom
The picturesque Lavaux wine region. (ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
A woman sits at the edge of a lake looking across to a picturesque mountainside network of green vineyards
The vineyards of Lavaux inspired Prince to write a song of the same name.(:BC News; Jeremy Story Carter)

Tourists take a photo on a concrete ledge in front of picturesque vineyard backdrop
Lavaux is popular among tourists.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
An old multi-story home stands amid a scenic backdrop of vineyards on a hillside
A house juts out of the Lavaux landscape.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Man wearing glasses and neat shirt looks up smiling amid small cobbled village backstreets
Phillipe Bujard on the streets of a small village in Lavaux.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Steep rows of green vineyards with one worker wearing white cap in the middle
The vineyards in Lavaux are largely inaccessible for any machinery.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Two women smile holding wine glasses inside a room hosting a wine festival
Attendees at the Festival Vin Nature Suisse in Zurich.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Man wearing pink t-shirt smells glass of red wine amid crowd at wine festival
Former sommelier-turned-winemaker Benjamin Dupas.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
A black and white border collie dog sitting on an indoor polished concrete floor with people behind
A dog at a natural wine festival in Zurich.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

An older woman with white hair wearing a cardigan and pink shirt holds a glass of red wine sitting thoughtfully at a table
Marion Granges-Faiss from Domaine de Beudon.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A small cable car moves past a large pylon on its descent down a mountain, with vineyards visible in distant background
The private cable car at Domaine de Beudon in Valais. (ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
An old photo of a family riding a donkey sits on a wooden table next to a glass of wine
Marion and her husband were gifted a donkey, which they used to go up and down the mountain.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
A dog stares out of an open door inside a moving cable car toward a green vineyard backdrop
A dog looks out the cable car travelling up the mountain at Domaine de Beudon.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)
Rows of steep green vines pictured through a window in a moving cable car
The vineyard seen out of a moving cable car.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A mountain in a distance with cloud rolling across peaks
A mountain viewed from the home of Marion and Severine.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Older woman and her daughter stare over the edge of a grassed mountain toward a town far below
Marion and Séverine Granges-Faiss edge stare over the edge of the mountain at their vineyard.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

An older woman with white hair wearing a pink shirt walks amid trees and a vineyard
Marion Granges-Faiss from Domaine de Buedon.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

A black and white photo sits on a wooden table. It depicts a mother and a young baby daughter
Marion first moved up the mountain in 1971.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

Older woman and her daughter smile holding wine glasses on grassed mountain
Marion and Séverine Granges-Faiss.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

An older woman with white hair wearing a pink shirt stands smiling amid trees
Marion Granges-Faiss from Domaine de Buedon.(ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)

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