Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2006 Amigne de Vétroz (Two Bees) is clear, bright and elegant on the warm yet finessed and elegant nose. On the palate, this is a fine and very elegant, salty-mineral and tight Amigne with fine bitters, tannins and stimulating salinity like in the 2018. The sweetness is nicely balanced by the salty freshness and delicate bitters of caramel and the delicate tannins. Rye bread notes are intermixed with ripe and stewed stone-fruit flavors. Tasted in Balavaud in January 2020.
There are hundreds of white grape varieties grown throughout the world. Some are indigenous specialties capable of producing excellent single varietal wines. Each has its own distinct viticultural characteristics, as well as aroma and flavor profiles.
Enhancing quality and diversity of wine grapes in recent years after the Swiss government lifted import controls on wine, Switzerland is beginning to gain some ground aside its European neighbors. While its main variety is the white Chasselas, more than half of Switzerland’s wine production is red. The country has 15,000 ha of vineyards mainly in the cantons of Geneva, Neuchâtel, Ticino, Valais and Vaud.