Marta's Monterosa Blog

I am passionate about the Alps. They are my heart's home and the place where I would like to spend the last day of my life. I have been a tourist in the village of Champoluc in the Italian Monterosa for all my life and worked as a tourist operator in this area since more than 15 years.

I believe in respect for the special environment of this place that you can find only here. We all gain by enjoying its beauty, while trying to make a minimum impact at the same time. Leave it for our children in the future!

I believe in respect for people who live here with their traditions and culture, language, and work, their genuine products and delicious wines. They open their homes for us, tourists and meet us as their guests, if we are able to open our hearts for them. I have a friend who is a hotel owner and he says that when stressed people from the city come to his place, he tells them to sit down and take a drink before they even begin to worry if they have a room. Perhaps, we can bring a little of their kindness and calmness with us on our way back to the city.

My philosophy is to give back a little of what the mountains and the people from this place have given to me and to my family through my work, to communicate my philosophy and my passion to those who follow me on the blog, and in my trips as a tour operator.

If you would like to visit Champoluc, Gressoney, Alagna or other villages in the Aosta Valley, trek or ski in the Monterosa, discover Sardinia or other places we offer, contact us.

Open Wine Cellars 28th May

Posted: May 4, 2017

Categories: News

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Author: SuperUser Account

The last weekend in May every year wine makers all over Italy, opens their cellars “cantine” to visitors. “Cantine Aperte” is one of the most important wine tourism events throughout the year and attracts both tourists and locals.

The event is organised by the Wine Tourism Movement, a non-profit organisation founded in 1993 with the aim of increasing the visits to wine producing areas and the meeting with its producers.

This is a unique occasion to meet and talk directly to wine producers, taste local wines and other specialties, and to step in to else closed underground rooms of ancient cellars, many with history and atmosphere dating back to medieval times.

In the mountainous region of the Aosta Valley, local wine producers will welcome visitors on Sunday 28th May. A glass for tasting can be bought in any winery for ten euros and be filled up as many times, and in as many cellars as desired. Both cooperative cellars and private wine growers are represented and this is a great opportunity to visit not only those considered the best wine houses in the valley, but also to discover small-scale, family run wine-yards where wine is made not for money but for tradition, passion and pure love of the territory.

The curious traveler will find a magnificent patchwork made up of small plots alternating with Alpine rocks, with grapevines climbing up the mountainsides. In many cases, the actual cultivation can be reach only by foot via steep mountain tracks. Wine making here are both heroic, extreme and well worth to explore.

Here you will find a list as well as a useful map of the open wine cellars in the Aosta Valley.

Find out more about our wine tours or contact us to tailor your own.

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