The commune of Ayze, despite expansion in all areas remains a rural wine-growing community and a great place to live. At the last census its population was 1857, today it is possibly very nearly 2000.
It covers an area of 1048 hectares. Below it is the Arve and above it the Massif of the Môle. Its numerous, picturesque hamlets benefit from 27 kms of road. Two small shops provide many services and a little café offers a friendly atmosphere for meeting up. Three restaurants offer their culinary skills to food-lovers.
The green south-facing hillside of Ayze shelters an expanding vineyard where more than 21 hectares of wines are cultivated, producing a sparkling white wine descended from "Gringet"stock, which is not found elsewhere. The Ayze vintage enjoys the appellation controlée AOC.
For tourists, three lakes, created to provide ballast for raising the level of the railway and suitable for swimming until about 1970, are today the haunt only of fishermen as the level of the water has fallen so much - but they teem with fish.