2014 Valle d'Aosta Bianco “Petite Arvine”
Château Feuillet
Where: Ground floor of a well-insulated and poorly ventilated townhouse, Beaune, Côte d’Or, Burgundy.
Problem: Fan not working, brain boiling, bad attitude. Flies.
Solution: This sweating bottle of high-altitude Petite Arvine. Simple yet refined, it harks to its lofty upbringing in the Italo-Swiss Alps, where the grapes grow on striated parcels of stark granite cliffs at 2,600 feet.
My glass opened to zingy minerality, fleshed out with summer melon and stone fruit. I could swear I felt an impossible breeze descend from Mont Blanc, and the fan began to whir...
–Katie Dodds
| Wine Type: | white |
| Vintage: | 2014 |
| Bottle Size: | 750mL |
| Blend: | Petite Arvine |
| Appellation: | Valle d'Aosta |
| Country: | Italy |
| Region: | Valle d’Aosta |
| Producer: | Château Feuillet |
| Winemaker: | Maurizio Fiorano |
| Vineyard: | 10 years, 1.5 ha |
| Soil: | Sandy, alluvial topsoil, granite bedrock subsoil |
| Farming: | Sustainable |
| Alcohol: | 13.5% |
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Kermit once said...
Kermit once said...
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