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
81 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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Chamoson
23 wines from this cellar
Cave Cybèle
Carlo Carruzzo, winemaker and oenologist, and his wife cultivate an area of 1.5 hectares of vines, located entirely in Chamoson.
Riddes
25 wines from this cellar
Maye
A family home in the hands of the fourth generation
Martigny
15 wines from this cellar
Cave Florian Besse
Their vines benefit from the sun on the steep slopes of the vineyards in Martigny area and they cultivate eleven grape varieties to this day.
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