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Marie-Thérèse Chappaz Petite Arvine Valais AOC

Valais AOC, Switzerland
Switzerland's most celebrated indigenous white variety from Chappaz's biodynamic Alpine terraces above the Rhône. Petite Arvine is unique to the Valais — its character defined by extraordinary salinity (the Valais's glacial-mineral terroir), powerful acidity, and white rhubarb, grapefruit, and Alpine flower aromatics that intensify with altitude. Pale straw with aromas of grapefruit zest, white rhubarb, Alpine spring flowers, and sea salt. The palate is electric and mineral — one of Europe's most distinctive white wines.
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The Valais's defining dish with its most celebrated white wine — Petite Arvine's electric acidity cuts through the richness of melted raclette cheese; the wine's salinity echoes the cheese's salt
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The Valais's own dried beef preparation — paper-thin, intensely flavoured — with Petite Arvine's saline-mineral freshness: a pairing that belongs entirely to the Alpine landscape
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The Rhône valley's prized mountain fish — char from glacial lakes — with the valley's most mineral white: a pairing of Alpine terroir clarity that needs no embellishment
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