Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 070226CHILL with a pleasant acidity

with a pleasant acidity

Sensations du Nord is their Syrah from vines on the slopes just outside the appellation boundary

and a healthy dose of peat on the nose

4 rye whiskey casks

A traditional Italian digestif which is increasingly growing in popularity

Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 070226CHILL with a pleasant acidityFumin is the great red grape of the Valle d'Aosta, and almost nobody outside the valley has heard of it. It turns up in the written record as far back as 1785, making it one of the oldest documented varieties in this corner of the Alps, and the Institut Agricole Regional the valley's agricultural college, whose Joseph Vaudan winery doubles as a teaching cellar makes one of the reference bottlings. Think of it as a mountain cousin to Nebbiolo: