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
78 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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Savièse
27 wines from this cellar
Cave Bridy
The wines are made according to proven methods that respect the type of grape varieties and their primary organoleptic qualities.
Chamoson
30 wines from this cellar
Pierre-Maurice Carruzzo & Fils
Twenty grape varieties are grown on the Chamoson estate : ancestral such as Petite Arvine, traditional such as Pinot Noir or original such as Mondeuse.
Sierre
20 wines from this cellar
Imesch Vins
The Imesch Vins estates are made up of old vines, some of which are over 50 years old and yield above-average grape quality.
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