Dalla Valle Vineyards

Grosjean Frères

Vigne Rovettaz Vallée d'Aoste Petite Arvine 2020

Here’s a serious mountain wine that is LOVELY!! 🏔️🏔️

It offers a bouquet of vibrant, high-toned fruit qualities, such as grapefruit, mandarin orange peel, lemon zest, pear, just ripe white peach, and apricot, layered with white blossom, acacia, herbal, crushed stone, wet gravel, cheese rind, and delicate cream notes. 🤩🤩 It’s dry with a firm structure including medium(+) acidity and medium alcohol (13.5%).

It’s the Grosjean Frères, Vigne Rovettaz, Vallée d’Aoste AOC, Petite Arvine (2020).

The Grosjean Frères winery has been owned and operated by the Grosjean family since 1968. Today, it’s the father, his five sons, and their cousins, who collectively treasure their vineyards like precious heirlooms of the earth, meticulously tending to them, while employing certified organic farming practices.

These vineyards are located in the stunning Alpine region of the Vallée d’Aoste AOC in far northwest of Italy (north of Piedmont), sharing a border with both France (to the northwest) and Switzerland (to the northeast). 

For context, Mont Blanc (15,780 ft elevation) calls the Vallée d’Aoste its home…  please take me there!

Surrounded by this dramatic landscape, you’ll find the Rovettaz Vineyard, where Grosjean Frères grows its Petite Arvine grapes for this complex, textured wine that saw sur lie (with bâtonnage), and partial French oak, aging for 8 months prior to bottling.

Cin cin to this beauty! 🥂🥂
— 7 days ago

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Bob McDonald

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@Vanessa A great cool/cold climate district Vanessa. We all must drink more wines from there.
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@Bob McDonald Couldn’t agree more! It’s a small but mighty appellation, producing such a wide variety of black and white grapes, making a range of beautiful styles of wine!

Danilo Thomain

Enfer D'Arvier Petit Rouge 2020

The name of this 100% Petite Rouge refers to the intense heat the vineyard receives during the summer months. Medium ruby color. Aromas and flavors of dark cherries, hot stones, dried violets, black pepper and minerals. Quite full and lush but the gripping acidity balances this wine nicely. Light tannins and Quite rustic in style. Thanks to Ron B for opening this bottle. — a month ago

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Palo Blanco Valle de la Orotava Listan Blanco 2021

Tart and almost weightless. Saline and citrusy. — a month ago

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Collina Dalla Valle Napa Valley Red Blend 2016

I like where’s its going but it’s just not there yet especially aromatically — 11 days ago

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Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1996

Glad I bought 2 👍🏼 — 22 days ago

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You should have bought three and sent one to me for testing purposes.
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@Severn Goodwin - QC is essential.

Manni Nössing

Eisacktaler Kerner 2021

Super fruity and easy to drink. Warm day, smoked trout on the grill and a glass of this in your hand...good times!!! — 17 days ago

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Love this producer!

Ermes Pavese

Blanc de Morgex et de la Salle Prié Blanc 2021

100% Prie’ Blanc. Light straw color. Aromas and flavors of green apple, pear, lemon and nectarine. All wrapped in a crisp mineral package. Mouth watering acidity and very long finish. Quite refreshing. — a month ago

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Maya 2014

Inspire Napa Valley Sat night event...walk around tasting, dinner, auction at Round Pound estate.

Over 30 participating Wineries:
Sreaming Eagle
Bryant Estate
Dalla Valle vineyard
Memento Mori
Staglin Family
Vine Hill Ranch
Keplinger wines
Chappellet
TOR wines
Etc.
— a month ago

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Quite a night!
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@David T A very fun night/weekend with great wines. But, more importantly, a terrific annual event to help raise money for Alzheimer research.
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Twice as nice when you can enjoy such wines while simultaneously raising money to fight a horrific condition.

BenMarco

Valle de Uco Malbec 2019

Accessible medium bodied yum. Good with steak but would also be good with something less intense — 8 days ago

Dolores Cabrera Fernández

La Araucaria Valle de la Orotava Tinto Listan Negro 2021

Rich, vegetal, smoky/flinty aromas. A wonderful medium body, black cherry and blackberry compote, flinty minerals, grippy tannins. PG is going to love this.
Traeger Day 2023
#rootscase
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