Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Gamay 2014
There are exactly two ways to reach Domaine de Beudon: a three-hour climb up a rope-assisted footpath, or the family's small private cable car. The vines cling to granite on a sheer mountainside above Fully in the Valais, topping out near 900 meters with slopes pitching as steep as fifty degrees, which is why nearly everything is done by hand. Jacques Granges moved up here in 1971 and converted to biodynamics by 1992, among the very first in Switzerland to do so; he died in 2016 after a fall in these vineyards, and his family has kept the domaine going. This is Gamay from that granite and that altitude, and with a decade-plus behind it the wine has shed its youthful fruit and moved into savory, secondary territory. The Swiss famously drink nearly all their own wine, so a mature bottle like this making it out of the country at all is a small miracle.
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Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Gamay 2014
Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Gamay 2014
There are exactly two ways to reach Domaine de Beudon: a three-hour climb up a rope-assisted footpath, or the family's small private cable car. The vines cling to granite on a sheer mountainside above Fully in the Valais, topping out near 900 meters with slopes pitching as steep as fifty degrees, which is why nearly everything is done by hand. Jacques Granges moved up here in 1971 and converted to biodynamics by 1992, among the very first in Switzerland to do so; he died in 2016 after a fall in these vineyards, and his family has kept the domaine going. This is Gamay from that granite and that altitude, and with a decade-plus behind it the wine has shed its youthful fruit and moved into savory, secondary territory. The Swiss famously drink nearly all their own wine, so a mature bottle like this making it out of the country at all is a small miracle.
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There are exactly two ways to reach Domaine de Beudon: a three-hour climb up a rope-assisted footpath, or the family's small private cable car. The vines cling to granite on a sheer mountainside above Fully in the Valais, topping out near 900 meters with slopes pitching as steep as fifty degrees, which is why nearly everything is done by hand. Jacques Granges moved up here in 1971 and converted to biodynamics by 1992, among the very first in Switzerland to do so; he died in 2016 after a fall in these vineyards, and his family has kept the domaine going. This is Gamay from that granite and that altitude, and with a decade-plus behind it the wine has shed its youthful fruit and moved into savory, secondary territory. The Swiss famously drink nearly all their own wine, so a mature bottle like this making it out of the country at all is a small miracle.
