{"title":"Didier Gerbelle","description":"\u003cp\u003eDidier Gerbelle comes from an old Aosta family, the type of smallholder farmer with just enough fruit to make wine for home consumption. It wasn’t until in 2008, after Didier completed enology education in Alba, that he was able to buy 2.8 hectares, just enough to make wine for the export market. The vines are high in altitude, terraced, and difficult to work — most vines in the Val d’Aosta are on slopes far too precipitous for any kind of machinery. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGerbelle works with indigenous varieties: the red grapes Fumin, Cornalin, Petit Rouge and Premetta are seldom found elsewhere, except for a few plantings in nearby Switzerland. These grapes, inherently unique on their own, are imbued with the hallmark characteristics of ‘mountain wine’ — delicate, airy structure; wild floral aromas; savory, almost crunchy, fruit flavors (think cranberry and raspberry over plum or black cherry) — thanks to their stark Alpine situation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith rising temperatures, the only direction to go is up. With vineyards reaching up to 1200m above sea level — some of the highest elevation vines on the Continent — the Val d’Aosta is already pretty ‘up’. Red varieties are typically planted lower than the whites, but farmers are finding it suitable to plant higher and higher. What we love about these wines — in some aspects, quite delicate, and in others, pretty darn rugged — is the juxtaposition of familiar and unexpected flavors.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/didier-gerbelle.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}