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Domaine de Beudon Petite Arvine AOC Valais 2020

White Blend from Valais, Switzeland

$175

$170ea in any 3+
$165ea in any 6+
Alc: 13.6%
Closure: Cork

Description

Lovely perfume and lift, textural almost Viognier & Traminer-seque. Big slippery oily phenolic texture. Exceptional perfume spice, marzipan, quince and fejoa, jasmine white flowers, great intensity. Very good. Delicacy with intensity and intrigue!

A variety rarely seen outside Valais, Switzerland. Its standing demonstrated by attempts from Angelo Gaja and Michel Chapoutier to work with this somewhat belligerent grape to grow.

From Valais in Switzerland and one of the world’s most unique sites for growing grapes (or living, I guess). One mixed agriculture farm at 800-or-so metres above sea level accessed only by a really difficult and extreme (dangerous!) walk along cliff edges or a very old personal cable car. Biodynamic for a very long time (three generations).

Good perfume, lemon-honey-ginger tea, some old honeycomb scents, alpine herbs, pleasing, rich in a way but floral and lifted too. Slick in texture, concentrated, oily with savoury, honey-toast ways and licked at by hay and wheat biscuit characters. Complex, intense, refreshing, intriguing.

Mike Bennie TWF 94 Points

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Why is this Wine so Yummy?

About Domaine de Beudon

Carefully crafted by the Granges family. A remarkable place that sits pretty on the steep side of the Swiss Alps at an altitude of 900m, Domaine De Beudon is aptly referred to as the “vineyard in the sky” by locals and wine-lovers alike. This wonderful biodynamic estate is accessible only by foot or cable car; hard to stumble across but impossible to forget.

Domaine de Beudon array of wines include Chasselas (Fendant), Petite Arvine, Riesling, Silvanner, Pinot Noir, Doilinoir, Gamay and many more. Their Chasselas and Petite Arvine have caught our eye! Chasselas, as it is more famously known, goes by the name of Fendant in the Valais.

Jacques Granges, who was affectionately known as Jacky, often said that people thought he was crazy. He was crazy to move up to Beudon as a single young man in the early 70’s. And crazy to convert the estate to Biodynamics long before anyone else – he was the first in Switzerland. Why would someone decide to painstakingly build terraces up the steep high hills of the Valais and give life to the first biodynamic Swiss vineyard on such unhospitable mountains? The answer lies in the wines themselves! After tasting the wines of Domaine Beudon, it is clear that Jacky Granges was simply another great man whose genius has been dubbed crazy by those who did not understand him.

As you might imagine, considering the conditions, production is very small, and the wines are a rare find. Jacky sadly passed away in 2016 from a fatal fall in his vineyard. Despite Jacky’s death, his wife and two daughters continue his dream of producing outstanding wines.

In the Vineyard

The vineyard in the sky… The vines at Domaine Beudon are perched on a small swell half way up a sheer mountainside in the Valais region of Switzerland. The only way to access the domaine is a 3 hour walk up an absurdly precarious footpath with fixed ropes or a small, rustic cable car. The vineyard sites are very steep, up to 50 degrees in spots and they top out at 900 meters above sea level. This is extreme grape growing at its apex. Soils composed of granite, gneiss, limestone.

In the Winery

Details of the winemaking are a little thin on the ground. Whatever they’re doing it’s translating to loads of fun in the glass.

What we do know for the whites is the fruit is processed at the top of the hill and the juice is transported by calecar for fermentation and élévage at the bottom of the hill.

Where in the World is Domaine de Beudon?

Domaine de Beudon is located in the Valais region in south-western Switzerland.

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94 Points

From Valais in Switzerland and one of the world’s most unique sites for growing grapes (or living, I guess). One mixed agriculture farm at 800-or-so metres above sea level accessed only by a really difficult and extreme (dangerous!) walk along cliff edges or a very old personal cable car. Biodynamic for a very long time (three generations).

Good perfume, lemon-honey-ginger tea, some old honeycomb scents, alpine herbs, pleasing, rich in a way but floral and lifted too. Slick in texture, concentrated, oily with savoury, honey-toast ways and licked at by hay and wheat biscuit characters. Complex, intense, refreshing, intriguing.

Mike Bennie TWF

Where in the world does the magic happen?

Domaine de Beudon, Domaine de Beudon, Fully, Switzerland

Valais
Switzeland

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