Alto Piemonte
Selection of the best wineries in Alto Piemonte. Here you can have a Boca wine tasting Bramaterra, Lessona, Coste della Sesia, Colline Novaresi.
EXPERIENCE LUNCH – min 20people – € 35pp
Visit to the vineyard and the cellar
Starters:
celery sticks with Gorgonzola cheese sauce
or variety of typical local salami
First course:
“Tagliatelle” pasta with wild game ragù
or “Risotto” with Gratus wine or with Toma cheese
Second course:
Variety of 4/5 typical cheeses with jams/honeys
or chocolate dessert
Artisanal bread/breadsticks – Water
It is possible to personalise the menu
Wines will be counted aside according to price-list
Vino Rosso bio Sass Russ (glass €3 – bottle €9)
Colline Novaresi Nebbiolo DOC bio Gratus (glass €4 – bottle €15)
Boca DOC Vigna Cristiana (glass €5 – bottle €32)
VISIT AND TASTING – 1h 30min – € 30pp
Visit to the historic vineyard, the ancient Villa and the cellars from the late 18th century.
Tasting of 2 organic wines with a local cheese and cured meats platter.
(vegan option on request)
PREMIUM VISIT AND TASTING – 2h – € 25pp
min. 6 people
Guided tour of the park, the historic Villa and the holistic library, the cellars and the vineyard with a final tasting of 2 organic wines paired with local products.
EXPERIENCE TASTING – € 24pp
Flavours between Boca and Valsesia
Visit to the vineyard and the cellar
Tasting of
Vino Rosso bio Sass Russ
Colline Novaresi Nebbiolo DOC bio Gratus
1 Boca DOC Vigna Cristiana
Platter with different kinds of local salami and cheeses from Valsesia
Artisanal bread/breadsticks and water
PRIVATE TASTING – € 35pp
The Private Tasting provides a unique path inside our historic cellars, to discover the places of production and the underground cooper to observe where the wines stop before being bottled.
Only with this tasting, if you want, you can taste the wine directly from the barrels.
Then, passing through a tunnel of two illuminated waterfalls that regulate the humidity of the cellar, we will climb into the starry tasting room, where you will have the opportunity to taste 5 wines, including 2 Lessona.
What is included: Visit of the winery and taste 5 wines, including 2 Lessona, accompanied by local products.
CLASSIC TASTING – min 2p – 1h 30 min – € 25pp
The Classic Tasting includes a tour inside our cellar to observe where the wines are aged before being bottled.
Then, passing through a tunnel of two illuminated waterfalls, we will climb into the starry tasting room, where you will have the opportunity to taste 4 wines, including a Lessona.
What is included Winery visit, tasting 4 wines, tasting of local products
WINE CASINÒ – 2h 30min – € 32pp
Participants: Minimum 2, Maximum 40
Languages:: English, Italian, Russian.
Live a unique wine experience and become a sommelier for a day with the Casinò del Vino of La Piemontina, a young winery located in Alto Piedmont!
During this experience you will have to test yourself and guess the wines you will taste. After a guided tour of the cellar, where you will have the opportunity to see all stages of wine production, you will move to the splendid tasting room of La Piemontina where you will blind taste 4 wines.
To help you, you will find a game table where the characteristics of each wine tasted are indicated. Bet your chips following your sommelier instinct and you will find out if you are the winner.
The experience ends with a tasting of our wines accompanied by delicious local products such as cured meats, cheeses, bread and breadsticks
INCLUDED
• Walk in the vineyard
• Guided tour of the cellar
• Tasting of 4 wines
• Selection of local products
• Blind tasting of 4 wines during the wine casino
NEBBIOLO TASTING – 2h – € 27pp
Participants: Minimum 2, Maximum 40
Languages: Inglese, Italiano, Russo.
Embark on a fascinating Nebbiolo tasting experience at La Piemontina, a young winery nestled in the hills of upper Piedmont, at the foot of Monte Rosa.
The wine experience begins with a walk through the vineyards surrounding the property. Then you will go down to our cellar, where our expert staff will explain all the wine production processes, from fermentation to bottling.
Afterwards, you will participate in a tasting of 4 wines in one of our event rooms. Tasting our Wines of Excellence will allow you to fully understand all the facets and potential of Nebbiolo in the different blends with Vespolina or in purity, to savor the most intense notes of a Nebbiolo aged in wooden barrels and to discover our white wine, also in the Brut Classic Method variant.
The tasting will be accompanied by local cheeses and cured meats served together with bread and breadsticks in a welcoming environment overlooking the vineyards and Monte Rosa.
INCLUDED
• Walk in the vineyard
• Guided tour of the cellar
• Tasting of 4 wines
• Selection of local products
Few people know that Upper Piemonte in the early ‘900 had a vineyard area no less extensive and important than the Langhe. Here, too, Nebbiolo and Gattinara were cultivated, considered the wine of kings. The diseases of the vine before and the industrialization afterwards, however, depopulated the countryside, causing the production to fall, both quantitatively and qualitatively. For some years now a small group of growers has ensured that these great wines have returned to express their full potential and therefore leading them to compete with the most titled nebbioli of the lower Piedmont.
THE VINEYARDS OF UPPER PIEDMONT ENJOY A PRIVILEGED CLIMATE. PROTECTED BY ICE IN WINTER AND REFRESHED BY MOUNTAIN WINDS IN SUMMER, ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AROMATIC PROFILES OF WINES.
In Upper Piedmont there are three main areas, the Ossola Valleys, the Novara Hills and the Coast of Sesia, where each of the three represents a DOCG.
Nebbiolo is undoubtedly the native grape variety par excellence of Alto Piemonte. Some almost unknown varieties such as Vespolina, Erbaluce and Uva Rara or Bonarda Novarese complete the picture of the autochthonous. All vines that can be vinified alone or concur with different blends.
In fact, together with the Croatina, Vespolina and Rara grape varieties, Nebbiolo reigns in the 10 denominations that characterize Alto Piemonte. Le Docg Gattinara and Ghemme and Doc Boca, Bramaterra, Novara Hills, Coast of Sesia, Fara, Lessona, Sizzano and Ossola Valleys
In addition to these great DOC wines, are also produced drier wines that go under the name of DOC-umbrella. These are unaltered Nebbioli, vespoline and autochthonous Croatine that are produced from grapes similar to those used to produce the now famous Erbaluce di Caluso.
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About 6% of the wine production of the Piedmont region, takes place in less famous areas but equally worthy of attention.
Territories able to amaze us, such as Upper Piedmont and the Canavese.
The provincial area of Turin is home to seven designations of origin, which give rise to 34 different types of wine! These are products coming in large part from native vines, often cultivated in marginal areas, but enhanced by a quality viticulture The Canavese, corridor between Piedmont and the Aosta Valley. Made of hills and lakes, with a right microclimate, which has allowed the cultivation of vines since Roman times,. An area that is a concentrate of energy and willpower. One of the most famous grape varieties of Canavese o better than Basso Canavese is theErbaluce.
The Erbaluce grape variety is a autochthonous Piedmontese white berry variety historically among the most important in the territory.The name Erbaluce comes from the story that tells of the encounter between the sun and the moon. They fell in love with each other, but could not touch each other in the sky. Canavese has many areas cultivated with grapes, but there are only three wines historically derived from this area. All characterized by a very high quality and an original organoleptic profile.
We are talking about the Canavese DOC
(red, white, sparkling white, rosé, rosé sparkling wine, Barbera and Nebbiolo). Caluso’s Erbaluce DOCG (strictly white). And the Carema DOC, a red that as the name suggests is produced only in the municipality of the same name of Turin.
Certainly deserve attention the Carema with its pergolas and the Erbaluce, which dates back to the seventeenth century, the Savoyard duchy of Carlo Emanuele I. The Carema was the “wine of the Olivetti”, who regularly paid tribute to customers and suppliers, increasing its knowledge in Italy and abroad. Look at the other wineries in Piedmont and Italy
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