Food & Wine - visit the producers: Challand-Saint-Victor, Emarèse, Saint-Vincent

Gabriella Minuzzo winery is located in thevillage of Challand St. Victor, in the Ayas valley.
It is the only winery in Val D’Ayas and it has its roots in the history of the family who, for over 50 years, has been cultivating the vineyard and producing sincere wines that feel and restore the imprint of the “terroir”.
The land cultivated with grapevines extends for about 8.500 square meters and is sandy. Exposure to solar radiation from the south-east and the south-west gives the Pinot Noir DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) and the high-quality Müller Thurgau DOC.

The products
White DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) wines: Müller Thurgau
Red DOC wines: Pinot Noir, Merlot
Other wines: Rabec (red table wine), Victoret (red table wine made from Mayolet grapes)

There is a sales point open during the visits or upon reservation.

The visit
The winery offers the possibility to visit the cellar and the vineyards, with the possibility of tastings (cost to be arranged at the time of booking).
The company can be visited all year round by telephone booking (Gabriella Minuzzo) to be made at least 3 days in advance.
Number of visitors required: minimum 4, maximum 20 people.

Languages spoken: Italian, French and English.

How to get there
From Verrès, continue along in the direction of Challand-Saint-Victor (approximately 5 km). When you reach the town hall, turn right. The company is located near the parish church.

Generation after generation, the family, who have owned the distillery since the early 1900s, have safeguarded the quality of their limited production, refusing to distribute it outside the borders of the Aosta Valley.
For over 100 years, Distilleria Cortese’s delicate grappas and fruity-flavoured liqueurs have been produced according to ancient recipes that continue to convey a unique flavour.
The flagship of the company is the production of different qualities of génépy, in particular the Artemisia génépy, obtained by infusing in alcohol only the flowers of the little génépy plant, which has marvellous properties and grows wild on the moraines of the glaciers in Valle d’Aosta at an altitude of over 2000 metres.

The visit
Free guided tours round the distillery can be arranged for groups upon phone reservation, during which you can observe the various production phases up to the bottling process, with a final tasting session.