“ The wine is the sunlight held together by water . “ Galileo Galilei     The estate Maison Vevey Albert was founded in 1968 by Albert Vevey, the pioneer of wine growing in Aosta Valley, and after the death of father in 1990, his sons Mario and Mirko are continuing with the production of […]

The wine cellar Cave Mont Blanc , placed in city La Salle, at the feed of Mont Blanc. The vineyards are the highest in Europe, reach 1200 m above the sea level. Here is finally the variety Priè Blanc, the variety most old in the Aosta Valley, one of progenitors of the others autochthonous varieties from […]

“ The wine is one of most big achievement of the man who has transformed perisherable fruit in something permanent “ ( Jean Arlot )   I have met Piero Brunet for the first time at the exhibition Fiera vini estremi in Forte di Bard in 2017. It was also my first meeting with the […]

The true experts don’t drink the wine. They are tasting a secrets” ( Salvador Dali )     I must to say , when I came back in my records, I seems to be lucky. Here is a new story to tell.   In reality this story initiated during my visit to the estate of Anna Santis. Anna Santis […]

“ The wine is the bottled poetry “ ( Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson )   Gargantua, the person from the books of François Rabelais Gargantua a Pantagruel, the giant who was the lover of food and wines. In the area of Gressan is located the prolonged hill named “ the finger of Gargantua “. This is […]

“The land is as good as those who work it “ ( Marcus Aurelius)   The place that attacks the mountains in vicinity to the city. The view of mountains, Mont Velán at horizons, in proximity of Valtellina, alpine pastures and the Switzerland border.   The difference with other agricultural estates, as I sent it, is […]

“ What we look in wine: the beauty, the colour, the culture, the pleasure and the dream. “ ( G.Jacquenot ) The company Grosjean. Other of the biggest producers if we spoke about the number of produced wines, but not only . Briefly . From 2011 biological winery. The third generation of winegrowers of […]

“ There is nothing more inside of wine if not the sunlight mixed with the liquid of vine “ ( Galileo Galilei )   My first encounter with wines from company Di Barrò was happened in summer when I had visited the event Wines in Vineyards in Aymavilles.But, in reality, I was already curious before to taste […]

When I come back in my memory at Valley d’Aosta, I remember only a sunny days, even if there were not only those . But it’s how our memory works, sometimes keeps the selected impressions only. In any case , during my visits at Maison Anselmet, and consequently, La Plantze , the days were hot and sunny. And […]

Les Crétes and Constantino Charrère, great winemaker who made a lot for the world of wines of Valle d’Aosta. One of producers from Valley d’Aosta who cultivated autochthonous varieties from Valle d’Aosta, who helped to save rare varieties, typically cultivated at Valle d’Aosta only , which are the part of cultural heritage and the richness of […]