Tastings
Tours
Accommodation
Booking required Scoperta
One-hour guided flight inside la bolla, the glass tasting room overlooking the vineyards, working through a selection of Cave des Onze Communes wines led by the cellar team.
Book this experienceCave des Onze Communes
Aosta Valley, ItalyCave des Onze Communes is the eleven-village wine cooperative of Aymavilles, the largest grower-cooperative in the Aosta Valley. Sixty-three hectares of mountain vineyards, worked by one hundred and seventy members, sit between five hundred and fifty and eight hundred metres on both banks of the Dora Baltea, supplying twenty-five Valle d'Aosta DOC wines from Petite Arvine to Torrette Superieur.
-
Aosta Valley
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Wines from Cave des Onze Communes
Wines Coming Soon
Wines for this winery are still being curated. Check back as the UK retailer selection expands.
Experiences at Cave des Onze Communes
Bookable experiences, curated by our editors. External booking where marked.
Rivelazione
Ninety-minute guided cellar tour followed by a tasting in la bolla paired with a plate of Aostan local products.
Book this experienceEsplorazione
Two-and-a-half-hour combined visit pairing a guided cellar tour and a tasting of Aostan local products with admission to the adjoining Aymavilles castle.
Book this experienceScoperta
One-hour guided flight inside la bolla, the glass tasting room overlooking the vineyards, working through a selection of Cave des Onze Communes wines led by the cellar team.
Book this experienceAbout Cave des Onze Communes
Cave des Onze Communes opened its doors in Aymavilles for the 1990 grape harvest, pulling together eighty-six founding growers from the cluster of villages around the Aymavilles castle. The roster has since grown to one hundred and seventy members, making this the largest wine cooperative in the Valle d'Aosta and the only one that draws fruit from all eleven of its namesake communes: Quart, Saint-Christophe, Aosta, Sarre, Saint-Pierre, Villeneuve, Introd, Aymavilles, Jovencan, Gressan and Charvensod. Around five hundred thousand bottles leave the cellar each year.
The sixty-three hectares of vineyards sit on both banks of the Dora Baltea between five hundred and fifty and eight hundred metres of altitude, on terraces and dry-stone walls that demand hand-work at every stage. Around seventy per cent of the plantings sit inside the Valle d'Aosta DOC, the regional umbrella appellation that protects these alpine slopes from abandonment. The mosaic of micro-parcels delivers a remarkable spread of grapes within a single cellar: cool-climate whites such as Petite Arvine, Muller-Thurgau, Pinot Gris and Traminer Aromatico from the higher rows, native reds Petit Rouge, Cornalin, Fumin and Mayolet from the warmer south-facing slopes, plus international Pinot Noir and Gamay from the central-valley benches.
Twenty-five Valle d'Aosta DOC wines anchor the range, with the Torrette and Torrette Superieur reds, both built around Petit Rouge, sitting at the centre of the line-up. Two further tiers signal where the cooperative invests its top fruit: Les Chevaliers, a single-vineyard selection in a sculpted bottle that puts a different grape in the spotlight each year (the current release is a Torrette Superieur aged eighteen months in tonneau, drawn down to fourteen hundred numbered bottles), and Linea Miniera, a granite-vat-aged set inspired by the alpine mining tradition. A drier-styled Coin Noble line serves restaurants, and the cellar also bottles a Fletry Muscat Petit Grain straw wine from late-harvested grapes.
Visits run year-round by reservation, in Italian, French, English or Spanish, and the cellar sits beside the Aymavilles castle on the regional road into the Cogne valley. Three standing tasting formats are bookable: Scoperta, a one-hour flight inside la bolla, the glass tasting room over the vineyards; Rivelazione, an hour and a half adding a guided cellar tour and an Aostan deli plate; and Esplorazione, a two-and-a-half-hour visit that pairs the tasting with admission to the Aymavilles castle. The retail outlet keeps shop hours Monday through Sunday, with parking and a step-free entry for visitors with reduced mobility.
Visiting Cave des Onze Communes
Editorially verified by ItalianWines.co.uk.
Tastings
Available
Tours
Available
Accommodation
Not available
Booking
Required
Plan your visit
Frazione Urbains, 14, 11010 Aymavilles, Aosta (Valle d'Aosta)
Plate I · AOSTA VALLEY
Cave des Onze Communes on the Aosta Valley wine atlas
Common questions
-
Cave des Onze Communes is a grower cooperative based in Aymavilles, founded in 1990 with eighty-six members and now uniting one hundred and seventy growers from eleven Aosta Valley communes. It is the largest wine cooperative in the Valle d'Aosta, producing around five hundred thousand bottles a year across twenty-five DOC labels.
More from Aosta Valley
0
