About the Aosta Valley wine

Discover the Aosta Valley wine with a guided tour for a journey in the taste of this beautiful alpine region.
The Aosta Valley is a particular region, surrounded by high mountains and cold climate, anyway it is an appreciated wine producer of white and red wines.

The sloping land and the difficulties encountered while looking after and maintaining the vineyards has not discouraged the local ‘vignerons’, who have created prestigious wines that are recognized and appreciated even by expert.

There is a wide range of wines, all them have the DOC label (Denomination of Controlled Origin).

Red wines

The Vallée d’Aoste Donnas DOC is an important wine, so much so it was defined “the mountain equivalent of Barolo”. This wine id produced using Nebbiolo grapes, locally called picotendro and was the first wine obtaining the Controlled Designation of Origin for Wine Certification in 1971.

One of the first Aosta Valley wine to obtain DOC status was the Enfer d’Arvier DOC produced the Arvier territory and its original vineyards were cultivated in a natural amphitheatre characterized by strong sunshine, from which the name “inferno” derives.

White wines

The most famous white wine is the Vallée d’Aoste Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle DOC, made from grapes harvested in the highest vineyards in Europe, at the foot of the impressive Mount Blanc.

La Cave Mont Blanc produces also a straw wine “Chaudelune Vin de Glace” harvested in winter when the gape is frozen and suddenly pressed at the first lights of the morning. Famous is the sparkling wine Cuvée des Guides fermenting at 2173 m altitudes in the Pavillon du Mont Fréty in Skyway Monte Bianco.

Visit the best wine cellars with a tour guide for a guided tour among the best wines produced in the Aosta Valley.

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