Adopt a vineyard and make it grow well (so your wine will be good) – Italian Cuisine

Adopt a vineyard and make it grow well (so your wine will be good)


An original initiative to help the environment and give enthusiasts the opportunity to create their own wine: 'Adopt a Cru', launched by the famous Grosjean winery, allows you to discover the heroic viticulture, typical of the Aosta Valley.

It is the time of sharing and, more than ever, of the search for nature. Among the most original and deserving ideas is certainly that of the Grosjeans, one of the great families of Valle d'Aosta winemaking: 16 hectares cultivated between Quart and Saint Christophe; about 140 thousand the bottles produced annually; 50 years of passion from a family whose origins date back to 1700. The initiative is called Adopt a Cru and allows you to experience firsthand the experience of cultivating, growing and producing excellent wines, from the grapes to the bottle. For a year, all wine and grape lovers heroic – which are the characteristic of the Aosta Valley – could be the protagonists of the everyday life of a historic winery, the first to choose organic in the region and always appreciated by the public and critics. In the latest edition of the Gambero Rosso wine guide, Grosjean won three Due Bicchieri with the red Fumin Vigna Rovettaz 2016, the Montmary Extra Brut Rosè Metodo Classico and the white Petit Arvine Vigna Rovettaz 2018.

Curiosity revealed

"We had been planning for some time to seal this adoption pact," they explain Hervé and Simon Grosjean, third generation of the family and creators of the project. "Many of our customers were curious to learn about the mysterious cellar operations behind a bottle: with this initiative they will finally have the opportunity to witness the birth and maturation of the wine, to arrive at the final glass". The adoption can also be made as a gift, so much so that a visit to the cellar and the vineyard adopted is offered at any time of the year, accompanied by a tasting of various types of wines.

Various stages

The adoption process is divided into several stages that correspond to the production and processing phases. The first step consists in choosing the cru between the Rovettaz and Tzeriat vineyards, which have the characteristic of being among the best terroirs in the center of the valley and give life to some of the best known indigenous vines of the region. This is followed by the certificate of adoption and the immediate receipt of an old vintage bottle out of the market. From here on it will be possible to follow the production in the vineyard and in the cellar, participating with the Grosjean family in the most important moments of the wine season: pruning (from January to March), tying (in March and April), the September harvest. and all other cellar operations. Respect for the environment is the basis of the initiative. «Our idea is to make known how wines are born in our mountains, underline the Grosjeans. "But also to safeguard the landscape, creating a new form of green, conscious and eco-sustainable tourism". Well said.

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