富美 Archives - Wine Paradise https://wineparadise.com.hk/zh-hans/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:02:45 +0000 zh-CN hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 LES CRETES Valle d’Aosta DOP Fumin 2018 https://wineparadise.com.hk/zh-hans/product/les-cretes-valle-daosta-dop-fumin-2018/ https://wineparadise.com.hk/zh-hans/product/les-cretes-valle-daosta-dop-fumin-2018/#respond Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:05:12 +0000 https://wineparadise.com.hk/product/les-cretes-valle-daosta-dop-fumin-2018-2/ The name Fumin comes from the smoky grey colour of its berries, rich in bloom. This ancestral indigenous varietal is today vinified purely in Valle d’Aosta. Les Cretes was the first company to produce it in DOP in 1993.

"The dark-skinned Fumin grape was traditionally used as a blending agent, but it is now often featured as a monovarietal wine. The Les Crêtes 2018 Valle d'Aosta Fumin sits pretty in the glass, reflecting dark nuances of ruby and crimson. The wine shows fruity tones of plum and blackcurrant, but you also get a whiff of the crushed white peppercorn that I often find in the indigenous grapes of Italy. This release of about 14,000 bottles is lean-bodied and would easily pair with a wide assortment of local dishes, including the unforgettable pizzoccheri buckwheat pasta." - Wine Advocate, 92 Points

Grape: 100% Fumin

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Aosta Valley

Surrounded by Piedmont in the south and east, French Alps in the west, Swiss Valais in the north, Aosta Valley is the smallest, least populous, and least densely populated region of Italy.
The region is renowned for the quality of its local salamis and meats giving rise to specialities such as carbonada, a dish composed of stewed meat wine, onions and spices. The cheeses are equally famous.
Home to Europe’s highest elevated vineyards, Valle d’Aosta is Italy’s smallest winemaking region both in terms of size and production.
Claiming an impressive list of autochthonous varieties, the region has also many grapes from France. Not surprisingly, wine labels are often written in Italian and French.

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Les Crêtes

Founded in 1989 by Costantino Charrere, Les Cretes is one of only a few private wineries in the Valle D’Aosta. The winery is located in Aymavilles.

It currently manages 25 hectares of vineyards in six villages. The production is about 220,000 bottles per year.

Les Crêtes produces its wines in a very specific context, characterized by high mountains, sandy slopes and alpine temperatures.

Les Crêtes vineyards are planted in both indigenous vinifera varieties (Petite Arvine, Petit Rouge, Fumin), as well as the more traditional varieties (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Muscat). Their Chardonnay has been awarded best white in Italy by Gambero Rosso in 2009.

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