The World of Wine Is Filled with Nooks and Crannies
We learn from them.
In the Italian Alps, on the slopes of Mont Blanc, lies the Vallée d’Aoste or Valle d’Aosta, Italy’s smallest region and a hidden area that contains the highest vineyards in Europe. This secluded enclave was not touched by the phylloxera infestation that devastated and destroyed 66% to 90% of the continent’s vineyards from the middle of the 1860s to the end of the 1880s.
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