Food & Wine - visit the producers: Lillianes, Perloz, Pont-Saint-Martin

The cooperative processes, dries and markets the chestnuts delivered by its members, who also deliver walnuts and hazelnuts.
The chestnuts are syruped and processed into cream, flour, flakes and other products, in order to adequately remunerate those who harvest them and to discourage the abandonment of alpine territories.

Products
Fresh and dried chestnuts and chestnuts in syrup and cream.
Chestnut flour and flakes.
There is not a shop on the premises, but purchases can be made during the tour or upon reservation. Roasted chestnuts can be tasted from October to mid-November.

Visit
The cooperative can be visit during the harvest period on Monday, Thursday and Sunday from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and during the rest of the year on request. Reservation should be made by e-mail or telephone (contact: Marie Badéry) at least 5 days in advance.
The visit includes a tour of the chestnut processing workshop (calibrator, cleaning machine, bagging machine and the bag sewing machine etc.) and the chestnut museum (tools used in the past for processing the chestnut) On request, tour to the chest nut tree forest.
Number of visitors per visit: min 5 / max 50.
Languages spoken: Italian, French, English and German.

How to get there
Arriving from the A5 motorway, exit at the Pont-Saint-Martin toll gate and take the Gressoney valley road. The cooperative is set on the left after the village of Lillianes.

Château Vieux is a winery in Pont-Saint-Martin managed by two young cousins of the same age, Sara and Marco, who define themselves as being united just like siblings. After completing their studies, which had nothing to do with the world of agriculture, in 2019 they decided to establish the winery, and they gave it the name that their great-grandfather, Alessandro Manganone, used to refer to the “homemade wine”, which is precisely Château Vieux.
Therefore, they merged their grandparents’ vineyards and obtained 7,000 square meters which they have worked with great passion and tenacity; then in 2021, they renovated the old family winery by adapting it to all the needs of a productive winery and also managing to obtain a “crotta” devoted only to ageing in wood.
As of now, with the help of family members united by a passion for wine-growing, they manage about 3 hectares of vineyards.

Products
Grisaille – Pinot gris DOC Valle d’Aosta
Gregoire – Nebbiolo DOC Valle d’Aosta
New labels to come.

At the winery, there is a point of sale where wines can be purchased, and the owners can always be reached via a call or by sending them a message.

The visit
It is possible to visit the vineyards, the winery, and the barrico premises all year round upon reservation by contacting Sara Manganone. There are various visits that can be booked: from the slightly more demanding walk through the heroic vineyards to decidedly easier visits.
The Wine Tours are tastings that include tasting wines and a platter of typical local products.
In spring and summer, there are picnics under a pergola on offer.
Cost of the tasting and the visit: €25.00 per person
Number of visitors required for a visit: minimum 2, maximum to be agreed upon

Languages spoken: Italian, French, and basic English.

How to get there:
The company is located in the center of Pont Saint Martin, in the parking lot behind the town hall, which can be reached by car.

Andrea Maurice and Manuela Cretaz’s Maison Maurice Cretaz is the only winery in Valle d’ Aosta to house, in organic and biodynamic management, three historical ‘extreme’ wine crus both in terms of their geographic location and for the high degree of incline of the relative terraced slopes of the adret facing south.

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The products
Domaine BANQUES Chesallet
White DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) wines: Petite Arvine DOC VdA, Vin Blanc
Red DOC wines: VdA (Valle d’Aosta) DOC (Controlled Designation of Origin) Torrette Supérieur, VdA DOC Mayolet, Vin Rouge

Domaine MONOT Pont-Saint-Martin
Red DOC wines: VdA DOC Donnas Supérieur, VdA DOC Nebbiolo, Vin Rouge

Domaine BIBIAN Aosta
Vin Rouge

Domaine CLLOU Morgex
White DOC wines: VdA DOC Blanc de Morgex and La Salle, Vin Blanc

There is a point of sale open upon reservation.

The visit
The vineyards can be visited for free and it is possible to have tastings, which cost is to be arranged.
The company can be visited all year round, from Monday to Sunday, upon reservation per email.

Languages spoken: Italian, French, English and Spanish.

How to get there
Arrival by geo-location must be arranged.