Marie-Thérèse Chappaz: Grain Arvine de fully 2023

Marie-Thérèse Chappaz: Grain Arvine de fully 2023

Lille Arvine 100%
hvid, tør
14,5% Vol.
Modenhed til at drikke: 2025–2045
mineral
ukonventionel
eksotisk & aromatisk
Lobenberg: 95–96+/100
Parker: 93+/100
Schweiz, Wallis
Allergener: Sulfitter,
lobenberg

Heiner Lobenberg om:
Grain Arvine de fully 2023

95–96+
/100

Petite Arvine findes hovedsageligt i Valais. Den siges at have en særlig salt smag. Den har også en fin smag af bitter appelsin og citrus. Denne aftapning er så typisk for druesorten. Klar, lys guld i glasset. Duften minder om kogende saltvand, Nashi-pære, liljekonval og citrusfrugter. Næsten genert i sin fremtoning. Vinen viser derefter sin kraft i ganen. Dette er en Bordeaux i hvidt, så at sige. Tydeligt struktureret af tanninerne, meget kraftfuld, syren spiller ret diskret i baggrunden. Derefter de bitre dele af appelsinskallen, kvæde, moden abrikos og en skefuld salt i glasset. Den bliver hængende i lang tid. Denne vin kan modnes ekstremt godt og bygger derefter endnu mere op i glasset. Den mineralske komponent kommer så tydeligere til sin ret. En af de store hvidvine i Schweiz.

93+
/100

Parker om: Grain Arvine de fully

The 2023 Grain Arvine de Fully is from three different terroirs that are all mentioned in small letters on the label. Vinified in 3,000-liter foudres and Burgundian pièces and bottled in early December 2024, the wine opens with a clear, intense and slightly flinty nose of ripe fruits, crushed rocks, salts and white seed fruit aromas. Full-bodied, round and juicy on the palate, this is a rich but refined and elegant, sustainably saline, very mineral and finely tannic Petite Arvine with a long and intense finish. This is a complex and expressive Valais Arvine with a certain power but also the structure that holds everything in tension. Still very young, the wine should benefit from bottle aging. 14.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Fully, March 2025.

Grain Arvine de fully 2023