The origins
The tie between the vine-growing and the Valle d'Aosta has old and deep-rooted origins. The first testimony go back ago to two thousand years, when, some Latin writers like Giulio Cesare and Plinio,testified the important vine activity in the Vallis Augustana. Instead it not exist sure information with regard to the preroman age; it is possible to assume that the Salassi knew the plant of the vine but that the techniques of cultivation and fabrication of the wine from experienced were primeval and ineffective. After the roman Empire fallen, the local vine-growing fell in abandonment but it succeeded to maintain sufficient vitality, conserving in his chromosomic equipment all the agronomic potential, of vine-growing and oenologic usable by the man.