Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 070226CHILL with a pleasant acidity

with a pleasant acidity

and Fromenteau (Pinot Gris)—this cuvée is sourced from a single parcel of massal-selected vines planted in 2003

the very first bottling in 1996

A traditional Italian digestif which is increasingly growing in popularity

Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 070226CHILL with a pleasant acidityFumin is the great red grape of the Valle d'Aosta, and almost nobody outside the valley has heard of it. It turns up in the written record as far back as 1785, making it one of the oldest documented varieties in this corner of the Alps, and the Institut Agricole Regional the valley's agricultural college, whose Joseph Vaudan winery doubles as a teaching cellar makes one of the reference bottlings. Think of it as a mountain cousin to Nebbiolo: