Food & Wine - visit the producers: Gressan

The ‘La Borettaz farm’ was established in 2000 to carry on a family tradition which had been alive for centuries in the history of farming in the Aosta Valley. Breeding Aosta Valley red spotted cattle and Aosta Valley brown cattle. The large surface area of the Farm allow to feed the cattle in the best way possible, using the fodder and the hay produced on the farm, all year round.

Products
Milk, DOP (Protected Designation of Origin) Alpine Pasture Fontina, DOP Fontina, Matured cheeses, Toma cheese, Toma cheese flavoured with thyme, chilli, kummel or garlic, Fresh cheeses such as reblec, ricotta, stracchino, mozzarella, Brossa, Butter, Yoghurt and Dessert, fresh meat and sausages. 
The farm has a 24-hour raw milk vending machine.

The point of sale is open every day from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 3.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Visit
The farm can be visited all year round upon reservation by e-mail or telephone (Bisson Fabrizio, Viérin Gabriele or Matthiou Thierry) at least three days in advance.
You will visit the cattle shed, the calf shed, the milk processing room and the cheese maturing room. A final tasting is also available.

For further information about availabilities and prices per person, please contact the owners.
Languages spoken: Italian and French.

Accessibility
All the rooms are on the ground floor, easily accessible even for disabled people in wheelchairs.

How to get there
The farm is located on the regional road for Gressan, two km from Aosta.
Exit the motorway at the Aosta Est toll gate, follow the signs to the Pila ski resort until the junction for Gressan and then carry on for about 1.5 km.

La Cave de Gargantua of the brothers Laurent and André Cuneaz was founded in 2013 from a family passion handed down in particular by grandfather Pierino Cuneaz, who passed on to his grandson Laurent the love for vineyards, land and wine. «Since 2004 - says Laurent Cuneaz - I have been working at the Institut Agricole Régional where I have been able to gain experience, study many aspects in depth and to experiment. At a certain point, however, I felt the need to do something of my own and, thanks to the help of my parents, we were able to create our small family business starting right from the garage of our home which was transformed into a winery».

The products
White DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) wines: Vda (Valle d’Aosta) Bianco “Vin de la Fée”, Vda Pinot Gris, Vda Bianco “Daphne”.
Red DOC wines: Vda Gamay, Vda Pinot Noir, Vda Gamaret, Vda Torrette Supérieur “Labié, Vda Rosso” Impasse”.

There is not a permanently open sales point, but it is possible to purchase products by contacting us via telephone.

The visit
The winery can be visited upon reservation with the possibility to taste the company’s products.
Number of visitors required for a visit: max 6 people.
Cost of the visit / tasting per person: this varies according to the time and the products available.
Languages spoken: Italian and French.

How to get there
From the centre of Gressan, at the roundabout go in the direction of Pila, second road on the right (follow the sign to the library), 80 metres and the winery is on the left.

Since 1981 Diego Curtaz has personally been involved in the wine production started by his paternal grandfather. The company covers about 25.000 m² in the territory of the municipality of Gressan: 10.000 m² are used for viticulture and 15.000 m² for orchards. The small size of the company allows for a cultivation on a human scale: manuring with aged manure and fungicidal treatments with integrated pest management methods for a maximum of five treatments per year.
The company makes about fifty hectoliters of red wine available per year; the wines that are produced and bottled in the company are a table wine called “Di meun” and four Valle d’Aosta DOP (Protected Designation of Origin) wines.

The products
White DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) wine: Chardonnay
Red DOC wines: Torrette, Petit Rouge, Gamay
Other products: fruit

There is a sales point open upon telephone booking.

The visit
The winery, the vineyards, the orchards and the production rooms can be visited. Tastings are possible upon payment.
The price of the tasting varies from a minimum of € 5.00 to a maximum of € 15.00 per person, depending on the wines tasted.
The company can be visited all year round via telephone booking (Diego Curtaz) at least 1 day in advance.
Number of visitors required for a visit: The tastings are carried out for a maximum number of 12 people.

Languages spoken: Italian and French.

How to get there
The company is located along the regional highway to Gressan, about 3 km from Aosta.

This small winery is located in Gressan, on the outskirts of Aosta. Established in 2009, the winery rests its foundations on the family’s agricultural business, managed first by Nadir's grandfather and then by his father and which, in fact, until 2009 aimed essentially at self-consumption.
With a few thousand bottles produced, they apply a kind of agriculture that respects the environment and the ecosystem as much as possible, for which the plants do not experience the use of synthetic herbicides or pesticides, but are treated exclusively with copper and sulfur, on average four or five times a season.In the winery, they follow a philosophy aligned with the choices that are implemented in the vineyard: the use of sulphites is reduced to the bare minimum, winemaking does not require the use of additional adjuvants and fermentations are spontaneous in order to enhance the characteristics of the grapes and the Terroir. Natural wines, not in recognition or legislative certification, but, more importantly, natural in their substance. Petit Rouge, Vien de Nus, Fumin and Vuillermin are the natives, Pinot Noir, Moscato, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer are the internationals: Grapes that have labels originating from vines planted over a century ago. Bottles that are the fruit of love and an unconditional passion for the land and the origins.

The products
White DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) wines: Pantagruel, Gewurztraminer, Valle d’Aosta DOC
Red DOC wines: Badebec, Rosso Valle d’Aosta DOC, Grandgosier, Pinot Noir Valle d’Aosta DOC, Les Gosses, Rouge Vallée d’Aoste DOC
Other wines: L’Entso Red Wine (Fumin 80%, Barbera 20%), Vin des Géants Red wine (33% Crovassa, 33% Neyret, 33% Petit Rouge), Pic Ten Red Wine (90% Nebbiolo, 10% Neyret), Gargamelle Wine from overripe grapes (100% Moscato)

There is no sales point open permanently, but it is possible to buy the products directly at the winery upon phone reservation.

The visit
The winery and the vineyards can be visited with the possibility of wine tastings.
The company can be visited every day by reservation for groups of up to 10 people with one week’s notice.
Cost of the visit / tasting per person: at the time of booking, based on the type of visit or tasting, any costs are communicated.
Languages spoken: Italian and French.

How to get there
The company is easily accessible by following the directions on Google Maps.