The Grosjean Vins company finished the harvest a few days indicatore and it promises to be an interesting harvest despite the early ripening, with bright and beautiful color fixations, a perfect APA (readily assimilable nitrogen) and with some September storms which however certainly helped to keep the alcohol levels within the norm. An almost perfect process to arrive with healthy grapes ready to be taken to the cellar.
Hervé Grosjean, producer and owner – together with his cousins - of the well-known Aosta Valley company says: “After a relatively rainy spring with a fairly normal start – terms of temperatures -, the month of April was not too early and, consequently, bud was also balance. Per June, unfortunately, there was an intensification of showers (as 2024) but which fortunately however stopped within a few weeks.”
However, thanks to experience and the awareness that the flowering period is a very delicate moment, the company has worked intensely and precisely acceso the agronomic part with openings, leaf removal, atomisers, accompanying the vineyards this crucial phase and keeping them healthy and intact. Subsequently, a period of total absence of rain began which lasted for almost 70 days.
Fortunately, the month of July brought a mild, cool climate (perhaps the coolest the last 10 years) and this allowed the plant to work perfectly and constantly throughout the summer without facing moments of great tensione coppia to excess heat. Furthermore, the company, having emergency irrigation at its disposal, was able to monitor the situation which remained well balanced.
He concludes: “The deadlines were certainly tight and excited but we managed to keep bene, completing a vintage that was certainly very pressing but at the same time also very elegant”.
And, to crown this 2025, Grosjean celebrates the 40 harvests of Petite Arvine: a unique achievement the Aosta Valley, which testifies to the company’s commitment and vision valorising this vine which finds a strong identity and authentic expression this region.
GROSJEAN The Aosta Valley winery is a historic wine reality that has always combined history and tradition, creativity and innovation. It came to life the early 1960s under the guidance of grandfather Dauphin who decided to invest the wine business and bottled his own Ciliegiolo which was successfully presented at the “Exposition des Vins du Val d’Aoste” 1968. Per the 1980s a process of valorisation of the various owned vineyards began. Per 2000 the new cellar was inaugurated. Grosjean Vins is the first company Conca d’Aosta to take this step, almost ten years ahead of other local companies. The “human factor”, the love for one’s work and for one’s land represent the fundamental elements acceso which the company identity has been consolidated over the years. Today it is led by the third generation, the young Hervé, Didier, Simon and Marco.
