Les Crêtes Valle d'Aosta Chardonnay DOC 2024
Les Crêtes Valle d'Aosta Chardonnay DOC 2024
- Italien
- Valle d'Aosta
- 2024
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Food pairings
- Shellfish
- Charcuterie
- Hard cheese
- Poultry
- Pasta with rich sauce
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- Gnocchi alla bava
- Vitello tonnato
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About the wine
Cool, mineral chardonnay with a distinctly alpine character - completely unoaked.
A pure expression of the mountains' influence on wine. The grapes are grown on terraced slopes up to 800 meters high around Aymavilles and Saint Christophe, where the alpine climate with cold nights and windy summers gives the wine its marked freshness and elegant minerality.
The wine appears clear lemon-yellow in the glass and opens with fine floral notes, tropical fruits, and a hint of clementine. The taste is soft and rounded with light fullness and plenty of fruit. It is balanced by precise acidity and a marked salty, mineral finish, revealing its altitude and soil.
Serve it at 10–12 degrees in spacious glasses. It is excellent as an aperitif.
The wine is made from 100% chardonnay, hand-harvested in the second half of September. The soil is moraine-dominated with over 50% sand and granite in the subsoil – a combination that enhances the wine's cool character. The first vintage was 1991.
The grapes are gently pressed as whole clusters, after which the must is fermented in steel at low temperature for 12 days. After fermentation, the wine rests for three months on the lees before bottling – a method that provides both roundness and texture without overpowering the wine's natural purity.
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