Ottin Non Expedit Syrah 2022

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To really understand Syrah in Valle d'Aosta, one has to look at the granitic soil, the high summer temperatures and the altitude of the vineyards.

A mountain Syrah, therefore, in which aromatic generosity precedes fine and elegant drinking, giving this grape variety drinkability and tension, characteristics not always associated with it.

In reaction to the suppression of the religious orders and the confiscation of Church property by the Kingdom of Italy, with the 'Non Expedit' (literally ‘it is not convenient'), the Vatican banned Italian Catholics from participating in national political life. But some objected. The land from which this wine originated was part of the property expropriated from the Church and was bought by a local family at an advantageous price, but at a very high cost in the society of the time: excommunication

At just 23 years old, Elio Ottin transformed rough, steep terrain with coarse-grained soil between Quart and Saint-Christophe into thriving vineyards that now yield some of the Aosta Valley’s finest high-altitude wines.

The entire winery runs on renewable mountain resources — stream water, solar energy, and biomass — while the vineyards are fertilized solely with manure from Ottin’s own cattle, completing a fully self-sustaining ecosystem rooted in his history and values.