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La Crotta di Vegneron |
Chambave Moscato Passito Prieuré |
WA - Wine Advocate |
94 Points |
2011 |
12/2015
Review
The 2011 Vallée d'Aoste Moscato Passito Chambave (375 mililiter) is a precious and petite wine with a large personality. This is a beautiful wine that reveals candied fruit, dried apple, herb, menthol tones and almond marzipan. The wine's complexity is not to be underestimated. Soft, luscious layers of creamy intensity and opulent fruit wrap thickly over the palate. The wine is softy textured and silky on the close.
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La Crotta di Vegneron |
Chambave Moscato Passito Prieuré |
WA - Wine Advocate |
96 Points |
2016 |
12/2018
Review
This is my darling wine from Valle d'Aosta. The precious and delicious 2016 Vallée d'Aoste Moscato Passito Chambave (packaged in a 375-milliliter bottle) makes a huge and lasting impact. It would be impossible to exaggerate the beauty and the intensity of the massive and opulent bouquet. Orange blossom, honeysuckle, star jasmine and lilac add to the perfumed intensity. This is a mid-weight dessert wine with perfectly balanced sweetness and freshness.
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La Crotta di Vegneron |
Chambave Moscato Passito Prieuré |
VS - Vinous |
93 Points |
2017 |
10/2019
Review
Medium dark, opalescent golden-yellow. Honeyed and gently spicy aromas of tropical fruit, vanilla and ginger. Thick and luscious but light on its feet, with a very creamy, sweet mouthfeel (170 g/L residual sugar and about 7 g/L total acidity) lifted by gingery spices on the long back end. The grapes are harvested from five or six plots, depending on the vintage, and are air-dried for 60–80 days. This cooperative was founded in 1980 but their first wine in bottle dates back only to the 1985 vintage. The co-op’s 60 members own 30 hectares of vineyards spread out over 20 kilometers, from the outskirts of the town of St. Vincent to those of Nus, and they make 200,000 bottles a year. The co- op is especially famous for its Chambave Muscat and Nus Malvoisie (a local name for a Pinot Gris biotype) wines; the sweet (flétri, in local dialect) versions of these two wines are especially good (of course, it can’t hurt that Chambave and Nus are two grand cru areas for these two varieties). Over the years, the co-op’s Fumin wine has grown in importance and is now one of the region’s best wines made with this variety. About 90% of La Crotta di Vegneron’s vineyards are located between 450 and 800 meters above sea level. It sells roughly 60% of its wines locally and 40% outside of the Valle d’Aosta (20% of which is sold internationally). This is an excellent address for fairly priced, very well made wines.
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