Winery visits in the Langhe

Who welcomes you

When you arrive there’s no hostess and no numbered trail. There’s Maurizio, Lorena, Silvana, Leonardo or Gaetano: there are six of us at the winery, five of the same family plus Luca, our young winemaker, and the person showing you around is the same one who was pruning those vines in January.

That’s why we receive visitors by reservation only. It’s not a formality: if we know you’re coming, we really do stop what we’re doing.

A four-hundred-year-old farmhouse

Cascina Sòt is the name of the old Langhe farmhouse which, according to some sources, dates back more than four hundred years. We restored it keeping what was there: the brick vaults, the stone walls, the beams. The tasting room is built down there, and from the windows you see the vines.

The family has been here since 1975, when Maria and Giuseppe bought the property after years of working it as sharecroppers. Barolo, though, we have only bottled since 2008: Maurizio is the first generation to do it.

What you see in the vineyard

We start from the vineyards closest to the house, inside the Bricco San Pietro cru. We show you the differences between the vineyards and the way each is worked, and how we look after the vines and the soil: grass between the rows, no herbicides, certified integrated production.

What you see in the cellar

Then we go down into the cellar and see every step of the winemaking. This is where the wines take shape, build structure, mature and age: the oak fermentation vats, the punch-downs done by arm, the large Slavonian casks, the tonneaux and the barriques.

If you come at harvest time, you see it as it happens: the crates arriving from the vineyard, the destemmer turning, the smell that fills those days and no other moment of the year.