Top 100 wines of Valais - Page 8
Discover the top 100 best wines of Valais as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Valais and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Valais
Switzerland's largest vineyard, capital of native grapes. Straight, precise alpine whites: light, floral Chasselas (Fendant), signature Petite Arvine with saline, grapefruit and rhubarb notes, rich, apricoty Amigne, mineral Humagne Blanche. Altitude reds: fine Pinot Noir, crisp Gamay, native Cornalin and Humagne Rouge, spicy and deep. Highly precise alpine age-worthy wines.
5,259 ha on sunny Rhône terraces (Martigny to Loèche, 120 km), dry alpine climate.
Discover the grape variety: Gringet
Elegant, taut dry whites and sparkling wines with a pale golden colour, a slender palate and crisp alpine acidity, showing refined aromas of citrus (lemon), white flowers (acacia), pear, dried fruits and limestone mineral notes. A crystalline mountain character. Star of Ayze AOC in the Arve valley in still and sparkling styles, rare artisan cuvées. Savoyard indigenous variety related to Jurassian Savagnin, synonym of Roussette d'Ayze.
Food and wine pairing with a wine of Valais
wines from the region of Valais go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or poultry such as recipes of slow-cooked fillet of beef, orloff roast or seafood, chorizo and chicken paella from patou.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of Valais
On the nose in the region of Valais often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit. In the mouth in the region of Valais is a with a nice freshness.
