Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 SF Chronicle Deutz builds its non-vintage rose

Deutz builds its non-vintage rose mostly from Pinot Noir

Grapes are pressed on a traditional wooden press

with around 20-25% new oak

and only 170 cases made

Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 SF Chronicle Deutz builds its non-vintage roseFumin is the great red grape of the Valle d'Aosta, and almost nobody outside the valley has heard of it. It turns up in the written record as far back as 1785, making it one of the oldest documented varieties in this corner of the Alps, and the Institut Agricole Regional the valley's agricultural college, whose Joseph Vaudan winery doubles as a teaching cellar makes one of the reference bottlings. Think of it as a mountain cousin to Nebbiolo: