Merletta is a historic vineyard next to the church of Saint-Christophe. Documents name it from the 1700s: sales, a canon of Saint-Ours, even a lawsuit over who owned it. Today it gives Fumin Vigne Merletta, aged entirely in tonneau, which we make for the United States only.
- Saint-Christophe
- Next to the church
- 0.33 hectares of vines
- Records since 1777
- Fumin and Petit Rouge
Merletta is an old vineyard: it lies next to the church of Saint-Christophe, in the place the documents call Chaussod. We age its Fumin entirely in tonneau and make it for the United States only.
In the documents
Two and a half centuries of papers
In the archives of the parish of Saint-Christophe, Rudy Sandi traced this vineyard’s life from 1777 on. It changes hands several times, for sums that show what it was worth: in 1781 it goes to a canon of the collegiate church of Saint-Ours, in 1791 two owners dispute it before the judge of the barony of Quart. In 1832 the joint owners of the Merlettaz stream have its channel repaired, to water all their land.
- 10 décembre 1777Bourg Saint-Ours d’Aoste
120 toises de terre en vigne situées aux pertinences de La Merlettaz, pour le prix de 50 livres de Piémont.
Jean-Marie Cuaz sells Antoine Petitjacques 120 toises of vineyard at La Merlettaz (archives of the parish of Saint-Christophe, document no. 38). - 17 février 1781Bourg Saint-Ours d’Aoste
une pièce de terre en vigne, située aux pertinences de Chaussod, lieu-dit « La Merlettaz »
The vineyard passes to Jean-Baptiste Plassier, canon of the collegiate church of Saint-Ours. - avril 1791Quart
une pièce de vigne située à Saint-Christophe, appelée Merlettaz
Pierre-Joseph Marquet and Germain Petitjacques dispute the vineyard before the judge of the barony of Quart: both hold title deeds. - 22 janvier 1832Saint-Christophe
Les consorts du ruisseau de La Merlettaz
The joint owners of the Merlettaz stream commission the repair of the irrigation channel.
Archival research by Rudy Sandi, Aosta Valley ampelographer
