The Cave La Tornale of Chamoson of Valais

Cave La Tornale - Petite Arvine
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 42 of the estates of Valais.
It is located in Chamoson in the region of Valais

The Cave La Tornale is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Chamoson to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Cave La Tornale wines

Looking for the best Cave La Tornale wines in Chamoson among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Cave La Tornale wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Cave La Tornale wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Cave La Tornale

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Cave La Tornale

How Cave La Tornale wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Cave La Tornale.

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Discovering the wine region of Chamoson

The wine region of Chamoson is located in the region of Valais of Switzerland. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Adrian et Diego Mathier or the Domaine Jean-René Germanier produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Chamoson are Pinot noir, Chasselas and Gamay noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Chamoson often reveals types of flavors of cream, tree fruit or mango and sometimes also flavors of lemon, grapefruit or black fruit.

In the mouth of Chamoson is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 46 estates and châteaux in the of Chamoson, producing 245 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Chamoson go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of Cave La Tornale

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Cave La Tornale

How Cave La Tornale wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal cutlets parmigiana, butternut and goat cheese gratin or duck legs with honey and orange.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Cave La Tornale.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Diolinoir

Discover the grape variety: Diolinoir

Intraspecific cross between robin noir and pinot noir obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil (Switzerland).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Cave La Tornale

Planning a wine route in the of Chamoson? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Cave La Tornale.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Cave La Tornale and wines from the region

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Top DWWA award-winning wines on show at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

At the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world’s largest wine competition saw its biggest year to date, with 18,094 wines tasted from 56 countries. Over 15 consecutive days in June 2021, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals. Join Decanter at our Fine Wine Encounter NYC this June, where you will have the opportunity to sample 23 of these top awarded Gold, Plati ...

The word of the wine: Maturing (champagne)

After riddling, the bottles are stored on "point", upside down, with the neck of one bottle in the bottom of the other. The duration of this maturation is very important: in contact with the dead yeasts, the wine takes on subtle aromas and gains in roundness and fatness. A brut without year must remain at least 15 months in the cellar after bottling, a vintage 36 months.