Langhe wine tasting
A morning or an afternoon among the vines, in the cellar and over a glass, in Monforte d’Alba. Your host is the person who made the wine, not a guide.
A wine tasting in the Langhe, with us, isn’t a row of glasses on a counter. It’s about two hours in three parts: we start in the vineyards, move on to the cellar, and finish in the room built into the brick vaults of the farmhouse.
Your host is Maurizio, Lorena, Silvana, Leonardo or Gaetano — one of the family, always. In the tasting room you taste five or seven wines depending on the option, always with Barolo, paired with a board of local cheese and salumi.
We start where the wine starts. The vines surround the house, inside the Bricco San Pietro cru, the largest in Barolo. We show you the differences between the vineyards, the exposures, the grey marl soils you can recognise by eye, and why this hill gives one Barolo and not another.
We also tell you how we work them: grass between the rows, no herbicides, treatments kept to the necessary minimum. The winery is certified for integrated production, audited every year by an independent body.
From the vine to the bottle, in the same order as it happens: the destemmer, the oak vats where the Nebbiolo sits on its skins with three punch-downs by hand every day, the large casks and tonneaux where the Barolos spend their years.
There’s one thing we’re happy to show, because nobody else has one like it: to control temperatures during fermentation we built a heat exchanger that uses cold water from an old well. And for tartaric stabilization we use the winter cold, not a machine. No energy used, no carbon dioxide produced.
You taste in order: starting with the whites — Chardonnay and Nascetta — then the Rosato or the Dolcetto, then the Barberas, the Langhe Nebbiolo, and finishing with the Barolos.
We tell you about every wine: which vineyard it comes from, how it was made, what to look for. And the questions are the best part.
The tastings
Four options: two short ones, tasting only, and two that also include the walk through the vineyards and the cellar visit. The cheese and salumi board comes with all of them, and all of them include Barolo.
Just the glass, for those short on time. The wines are still presented by one of the family.
The full package: you walk, you look, you taste. It’s the one we recommend if it’s your first visit.
For those who have already done the tour, or want to go straight to the top labels.
The most complete. The whole tour and both Barolo side by side, to understand what changes between the village wine and the cru.
Prices, dates and availability are on the calendar.
If you buy wine at the winery the tasting may be discounted or free: ask us when you book, or check the conditions on the calendar.
Who has already been
The tastings are led by us, one of the family, always. You can read the reviews in full on our Google listing and on Tripadvisor.
The wines you’ll taste, as judged by others
We look forward to seeing you
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