Syrah La Tour Valle d’Aosta Les Cretes

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Features
Winery Les Cretes
Denomination Valle d’Aosta Dop
Vintage 2020
Grapes 100% Syrah
Alcohol content 14,00%
Cl 75cl
Sulfites Contains sulphites
Code ICQRF AO/4209
Winery headquarter Les Crêtes - Aymaville (AO) - Località Villetos, 50
Bottle size Standard bottle
Combination Soups, Pot roast, Meat stewed, Medium-aged cheeses, Rabbit, Hard cheese, Cold cuts and salami, Roast meat
Region Aosta Valley (Italy)
Style Full-bodied and intense
Wine list Syrah
Wine description

The production area is “La Tour di Aymavilles” in the Aosta province at north. The vineyards are 15-20 years old and they are cultivated on slope morainic, loose and sandy soils which are exposed at west at 650 meters above the sea level which is a very hard cultivation. The vines are extended for 1 hectare and they are cultivated with the Guyot method. The trees density is 8000 units per hectares with an annual profit of 8000 kg per hectare. The manual grape harvest takes place in the second half of October. The fermentation lasts 10-12 days. This process takes place in stainless steel tanks at 28°C. During this process, there are mechanic pumping over. The aging lasts 12 months in little oak barrels of 300 liters. The final aging lasts 6 months in bottles which are kept in the producer cellar. This particular and refined vine born in the main symbolic area of the winery where is located an ancient Middle-age tower of the XV century. These period the Aosta nobility built many castles and forts. At the end of the XVIII century the tower was used by the Savoy, Piedmont and Aosta duke Vittorio Emanuele, as personal apartment of the hunting.

 

Characteristics of the Syrah Valle d’Aosta "Côteau La Tour" DOC

This wine has a ruby red color with a deep and austere garnet hint. It has fruity and penetrating aromas with berries flavors such as black berry and blue berry and some green pepper hints. It has an Harmonic taste very warm, full and characterized by a spicy aroma typical of this variety. 

 

Suggested pairings with this red wine from Valle d'Aosta

This wine is perfect with cheeses soups, medium and long aged cheeses such as toma and fontina, with red meats, game and braised meats. It has to be served in Gran Ballon or Borgogna wine glasses for the perfumes diffusion.

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