Glacier Wine - The “Sherry“ of Valais
Sierre
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Glacier wine has originated in the Val d´Anniviers, a valley south of Sierre/Siders. The traditional blending method consisted in earlier times of 90% Rèze wine and 10% Humagne Blanc, Ermitage, Petite Arvine and Malvoisie.
Nowadays glacier wine (Le Glacier) is produced mainly from Fendant (Chasselas), complemented by Ermitage and Malvoisie. As far as the oxidation process is concerned, the wine is usually aged for 10 to 15 years in a series of larch-wood barrels. The barrels spend the winter in Siders and are taken in carts to Grimentz in the Val d'Anniviers after the snow has melted. Up there, only 3 km from the glacier, there are huge natural cellars, where the wine is aged in barrels that are practically never completely emptied.
