Wine Tasting – Wine Tours in Italy

This week-end, the village of Barolo, in Piedmont, will celebrate the omonymous wine.

, famed zone for the production of excellent wines and for the very appreciated typical produce.

The festival, which is the prelude to the grape harvest kick off, includes gastronomical itineraries and, of course, several tasting sessions of selected Barolo labels.

Barolo is a DOCG wine; the production zone of is in Piedmont, in the Langhe hills, southwest of the town of Alba.
It is a dry still, ruby red wine with maroon-orangey highlights. The taste is dry, full bodied, austere, with aroma of rose, violet and liquorice.
Alcohol: 13%; aging: minimum three years, five years to achieve the Riserva denomination.
Ideal to accompany barbeque, venison, and seasoned cheese.

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The historic Castello Faletti di Barolo, in Serralunga d’Alba, Piedmont, will host a wine museum.

The castle, located in the heart of Langhe, in the province of Cuneo, is a medieval fortress and an ideal home for a wine museum. It will be transformed inside and in three thousand square metres, through multimedia pictures, it will show how wine is made: processes, terrains, seasons, colours, tastes, but also tell about the history, literature, art, and smells.

The Langhe area is well known for famed wines as Barolo, Dolcetto, Barbaresco, Nebbiolo as well as for great food. Several of the local food specialties and recipes are truffles-based; Alba,the main center of the area, located 10km away from Serralunga, is named the ‘Italian capital of truffle’.

In a few minutes drive, within a few km range, the area offers visitors a lot of attractions and places that are worth to visit.
The tour we suggest takes you through the area named “Via del Barolo” (the Barolo road). It offers a great opportunity to combine visits to a lot of historic sites and wine museums with sampling of some of the most excellent wines and great food, as well as admiring breathtaking countryside landscapes. Below you have the main attractions in the area and the tour itinerary map.

• Alba: The Duomo (XV Century), Medieval towers, S.Giovanni Battista Church, Castello di Grinzane (8 km outside the city) which (more…)

The wine itinerary proposed is centered on the Monferrato, in Piedmont, an area offering a host of interesting wine and gastronomical attractions.

The most important city in the area is Asti, 35 km from Turin, via A21 Highway.

From Asti start two itineraries: one heading toward north to the ‘Basso Monferrato’, the other one toward south to the ‘Alto Monferrato’ (now we are mostly covering the wines from ‘Basso Monferrato’).

– Some among the typical local Wines –

– Dolcetto d’Asti. (DOC); ruby red wine; dry still; Alcohol: 11.5%
– Barbera del Monferrato. (DOC); bright red wine; dry still / dry sparkling sweet / sweet still ; Alcohol: 12%
– Asti. (DOCG ); straw yellow ; sparkling sweet / sweet still ; taste: sweet; Alcohol: 12%
– Cisterna d’Asti. (DOC ); ruby red ; dry; taste: dry delicate; Alcohol: 12%
– Grignolino del Monferrato Casalese. (DOC ); ruby red ; dry still; taste: dry delicate; Alcohol: 11% – 13%

– Some Wineries in the area –

– Araldica Vini Piemontesi: 14040 Castel Boglione (AT); www.araldicavini.com
– Antica Casa Vinicola Scarpa 14049 Nizza Monferrato; www.scarpavini.it
– Bava 14023 Cocconato (AT); www.bava.com
– Bersano & (more…)