The Winery Les Cretes of Valle d'Aosta

Winery Les Cretes
The winery offers 27 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 7 of the estates of Valle d'Aosta.
It is located in Valle d'Aosta
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The Winery Les Cretes is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 27 wines for sale in of Valle d'Aosta to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Les Cretes wines

Looking for the best Winery Les Cretes wines in Valle d'Aosta among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Les Cretes 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 Winery Les Cretes wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Les Cretes

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Les Cretes

How Winery Les Cretes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, salmon and spinach lasagna or uzbek pilaf.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Les Cretes

On the nose the red wine of Winery Les Cretes. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, blueberry or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Les Cretes. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Les Cretes

  • 2005With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.63/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Les Cretes.

  • Fumin
  • Petit Rouge
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinot Noir
  • Barbera
  • Mayolet

Discovering the wine region of Valle d'Aosta

Valle d'Aosta is the smallest and least populated region in Italy, only one-eighth the Size of neighbouring Piedmont. It covers a mountainous area in the far northwest of Italy, where the country's borders meet those of France and Switzerland. Despite the region's small size and low profile, a wide range of red and white wines are produced from a selection of native and introduced Grape varieties. The most important of these is Picotendro, the local form of Nebbiolo.

Aosta is clearly influenced by its neighbours. French is the second official language, and French grape varieties are just as common as Italian ones. Chardonnay and Gamay grow side by side with Nebbiolo and Dolcetto. In addition to the best-known varieties, the Regional Agricultural Institute has listed a selection of indigenous regional varieties.

The top white wines of Winery Les Cretes

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Les Cretes

How Winery Les Cretes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pasta with basil, natural breton lobster or crozet cheese with savoy diots.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Les Cretes

On the nose the white wine of Winery Les Cretes. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, cream or oaky and sometimes also flavors of tropical, citrus or smoke. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Les Cretes. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Les Cretes

  • 2006With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.85/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Les Cretes.

  • Chardonnay
  • Petite Arvine
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Prié

Discover the grape variety: Vien de Nus

The top sweet wines of Winery Les Cretes

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Les Cretes

How Winery Les Cretes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts or spicy food such as recipes of simple pancake batter or pork chops with curry and honey.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Les Cretes

  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 0With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Les Cretes.

  • Moscato
  • Muscat Blanc

The word of the wine: Sweet

Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Les Cretes

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Les Cretes

How Winery Les Cretes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Les Cretes

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Les Cretes. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Les Cretes

  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Les Cretes.

  • Prié

Discover the grape variety: Mayolet

The top pink wines of Winery Les Cretes

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Les Cretes

How Winery Les Cretes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of small stuffed provençal dishes, beef carrots or duck confit parmentier.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Les Cretes

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Les Cretes. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Les Cretes

  • 0With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Les Cretes.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Petit Rouge

The word of the wine: Musty (taste of)

A disgusting taste due to a defect in the grapes or, more commonly, a defect in the barrel.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Les Cretes

Planning a wine route in the of Valle d'Aosta? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Les Cretes.

Discover the grape variety: Furmint

Furmint is a very old Hungarian grape variety. It arrived in France in the 1800s. The bunches of Furmint are of medium size. They are compact and cylindrical. The berries are also of medium size. They are either short elliptical or rounded. Their thick skin changes from greenish white to reddish once the fruit is mature. This grape variety is known throughout the world for being part of the composition of the Hungarian Tokaj vintage. Robust, rich in alcohol and acidity, it needs light soil and a warm, dry climate to be fertile. It must also be pruned short and its budding takes place 7 days after the Chasselas. As for its maturity, it is of the second late period. This grape variety fears grey rot and erinosis. When vinified dry, Furmint produces a very fragrant, fine and highly alcoholic white wine.