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ImageThe Estate of Muses à Sierre created in 1993 by Nicole and Louis Taramarcaz, has stretched out to new horizons ever since Robert, the son of the founders, returned to the family business. Ten years of oenological and wine growing studies took the young man from Changins all the way to New Zealand and from Sierre to Bourgogne. In 2001, armed with a Diploma from the Dijon University Institute of Vine and Wine, he returned to participate in the grape harvesting and to contribute to its fate in the cellar.

The development and experience of the young oenologist gave him a vision set firmly on wine growing and its future in Valais. It did not, however, make him a revolutionary determined to ruin everything. Thus, he refused to root out plots of Chasselas and replace them with more "commercial" strains. Defender of the Fendant, his philosophy is based on the following statement: the Valais has regions very favourable to white wines, and if our ancestors adopted the Chasselas so easily, it means that this is the right one for the region.

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by Alexandre Truffer, ©RomanDuVin.ch 2007

 
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