Map of Grindelwald from above, Cork Club marked with a wine glass

Tasting · Grindelwald

Grindelwald's Cork Club and the Magnum Aged in Ice

Among GaultMillau's ten best Swiss wine bars, March 2026

In March 2026 GaultMillau named the Cork Club, on Grindelwald's village street, among the ten best wine bars in Switzerland and counted 160 wines by the glass. On its bottle list is a magnum of Humagne Blanche from Salgesch that matured from March 2022 in oak barrels in an ice vault on the Jungfraujoch (stop 4). It opens Wednesday to Sunday, winter included: come for a Swiss glass or a coffee, read the line marked "Aged on Jungfraujoch", and take your photo under the members' corkscrews.

Visiting Cork Club

When to go

Go Wednesday to Sunday between 12:00 and 21:00; on Mondays and Tuesdays it is shut. No seasonal closure is published, so from December to March it works as a winter evening stop after a day on the slopes, 316 m from Grindelwald station. The terrace opens only when the weather allows. In the quiet weeks between seasons, in November and April, check the hours on the house page before going.

Practical details

The bar is walk-in during opening hours. The guided Swiss Wine Tasting is booked online on the house page, and groups of 2 to 26 can ask for a sommelier or the whole room. Every bottle has two prices, at the table or to take away: Petite Arvine from Rouvinez costs CHF 42 or 30, Louis Bovard's Médinette CHF 65 or 53. Espresso is CHF 4.00. Cheese boards include vegan ones, and homemade iced tea and coffee make a zero-proof stop.

Getting there

The Cork Club is at Dorfstrasse 119 on Grindelwald's village street, 316 m east of the station where the Berner Oberland-Bahn from Interlaken Ost ends. Grindelwald Terminal, the Eiger Express base, is about 1.2 km west. Some map apps still show the door under its older name, Grindel Lounge. The owners' Hotel Glacier is a separate address, Endweg 55.

About Cork Club

What to do there

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Among GaultMillau's ten best wine bars in Switzerland; the house says its focus is Mémoire winemakers.

In March 2026 GaultMillau put the Cork Club among the ten best wine bars in Switzerland, beside bars in Bern, Basel, Lucerne, Zurich, Zug and Samedan, and counted 160 wines by the glass, the focus on Swiss wine.
Where: Dorfstrasse 119, 316 m east of Grindelwald station, the end of the Berner Oberland-Bahn from Interlaken Ost.
What: on the menu, find the symbol for Mémoire des Vins Suisses; the house says it pours independent Mémoire Suisse winemakers.
How: free to read.

Log Memory
A Humagne Blanche from Salgesch, matured in an ice vault at 3,454 metres.

From March 2022 Gregor Kuonen's Humagne Blanche from Salgesch matured in five oak barrels in an ice vault in the Ice Palace on the Jungfraujoch (stop 4), at 3,454 metres. The Kuonen cellar's reason: constant temperatures around freezing point and 90 percent humidity.
What: on the list, the 2022 "Reine des Glaces", marked "Aged on Jungfraujoch", in magnum: CHF 127 at the table, CHF 115 to take away.
How: reading it is free.
Backup: if it has gone, GaultMillau's example of a Humagne Blanc by the glass is Valentina Andrei's.

Log Memory
The glass, with a cheese board; zero-proof drinks on the same menu.

GaultMillau's own pick here was a decilitre of Pinot Noir from the Gantenbeins.
What: choose one Swiss glass; Chasselas, Petite Arvine and Cornalin are all on the list, beside cheese boards (vegan ones too) and small plates.
How: a bottle of Rouvinez Petite Arvine costs CHF 42 at the table. For zero-proof: homemade iced tea, soft drinks or a coffee from the Italian barista machine.

Log Memory
Your photo memory: the glass, with the members' corkscrews behind it.

Members pay CHF 1,500 a year, credited as consumption, and each gets a personal corkscrew; GaultMillau describes a compartment for each on the wall.
What: hold up your glass, or the bottle list open at the ice-aged magnum, with the corkscrews behind it: that picture is this stop's memory.
How: free.
Backup: in good weather the terrace opens; frame the glass there.

Log Memory

Insider tips

The bar has its own door at Dorfstrasse 119; the hotel that owns it (stop 2) is a separate door at Endweg 55, 551 m away.
Map apps may still show the old name on the door, Grindel Lounge, a café that opened here in December 2012.
Every bottle has two prices: to take away it costs CHF 12 less, so the Petite Arvine is CHF 42 at the table and CHF 30 to go.
For a group, the house offers a guided Swiss Wine Tasting booked online; the tourist board lists groups of 2 to 26, with a sommelier on request.