Malvoisie
About this grape variety
Pinot Gris, like Pinot Blanc, is a genetic mutation of Pinot Noir that changed colour spontaneously.
In Valais its magnificent wines are known as Malvoisie. Like its forebear, Pinot Gris has a compact bunch and is susceptible to disease. Also like Pinot Noir, it prefers the best Valais slopes: the warmest, the best ventilated.
It is nearly always harvested as withered grapes for late harvest wine, sometimes graced with noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). The small number of dry Malvoisie wines (called Pinot Gris in Valais) are wonderful to explore. No matter the type of wine, these wines, which are concentrated, vinous, robust, soft and full, become wonderfully well balanced after some years of cellar aging.
Malvoisie
59.15 ha out of 4675 ha, or 1.26%
Tasting profile
77 wine producers cultivate this grape variety
Find a cellarEtymology
Malvoisie refers to the well-known Italian Malvasia Bianca, which produces high-quality sweet wines, but in Valais it is the name historically used to identify Pinot Gris.
wine cellar(s)
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Fully
17 wines from this cellar
La Rodozine
If Eddy Rossier confesses a preference for the Petite Arvine and the Gamay, Nathalie recommends her favourite, the Pinot Blanc.
Sierre
20 wines from this cellar
Cave Adrien et Maurice Zufferey
Maurice Zufferey and his son Adrien have the same passion for authentic Valais winemaking.
Ayent
11 wines from this cellar
Cave Cri du Merle
Dominique and Serge Savioz grow around fifteen traditional Valais grape varieties, cultivated and selected to produce quality wines.
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