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Grosjean Torrette Vallee d'Aoste 2024Grosjeans Torette is charming and delicious in its youth but takes on more weight and gravitas with some bottle age. Bouyed by high acidity and snappy red fruit, the wine is balanced by notes of crushed rocks and earth that make it a perfect pairing for the traditional charcuterie and soups of the Val dAoste. An indigenous blend of 80% Petit Rouge together with a varying amount of Vien de Nus, Doucet, Fumin and Mayolet. The vineyard sites are at an

with the Vieilles Vignes cuvée comprising parcels ranging from 50 to 80 years of age

The wine is fermented and aged in temperature-controlled vats and is bottled usually one year after harvest

25% Barbera and 10% Uva Rara

a year’s worth of aging in cement egg with minimal sulfur—with vines from a notably different terroir: 80-year-old Grenache planted in the Le Gour vineyard’s limestone-rich clay

and Fischer employs used barrels between 500 and 1500 liters for 50% of the blend in order to mitigate the site’s tendency toward severity

the juice is fermented in stainless steel and then racked into large oak botti for about two years of aging before being bottled

all underpinned by a very Kimmeridgian umami note not unlike chicken stock—something only ample aging can provide

citrus peel

layered beauty of his style

adjacent to Pernand-Vergelesses

and 5% Uva Rara

its woodsy nose with notes of truffle and spice announces a grand wine of breed and character that refuses to yield to the modern notion of easy drinkability

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