Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 SCCOS Buy it by the case

Buy it by the case and stop overthinking Tuesday dinner

but supported by a mineral backbone

Like the Un Chardonnay

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Institut Agricole Regional Vallee d'Aoste Fumin 2018 SCCOS Buy it by the caseFumin 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: