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...
I want you to realize once and for all: Even the winemaker does not know what aging is going to do to a new vintage; Robert Parker does not know; I do not know. We all make educated (hopefully) guesses about what the future will bring, but guesses they are. And one of the pleasures of a wine cellar is the opportunity it provides for you to witness the evolution of your various selections. Living wines have ups and downs just as people do, periods of glory and dog days, too. If wine did not remind me of real life, I would not care about it so much.
Inspiring Thirst, page 171