Vallée d’Aoste Donnas DOC is an important wine, so much so it was defined “the mountain equivalent of Barolo”. Its production uses Nebbiolo grapes, locally called Picotendro (min. 85%), Freisa and Neyret, harvested in the Donnas, Perloz, Pont-Saint-Martin and Bard vineyards. With a dry, velvety and harmonious taste and a refined aftertaste with a lingering tannic note: characteristics that go down well with chamois meat and all game, but also cheese with a long maturation period.

Donnas is a full-bodied wine (12.5°-13.5°), which should be served at a temperature of 20°-22°, opening the bottle before serving and leaving it in warm surroundings. Certain vintages should be left to breath or require the use of a decanter.

It should be noted that Donnas was the first Valdostane wine to obtain the Denomination of Controlled Origin (DOC) mark.