Friday, January 15, 2010

Visiting wineries

Piemonte = wine !

It's very simple, when you live in Piemonte you drink wine, you talk about wine and most people also have a vineyard for their own table wine.
It's only logical that we visit the wineries in our neighboorhood, to look for possibilities to work together for our guests.

Yesterday we really found a little hidden gem. In the hills above Montechiaro d'Acqui, there is a natural winemaker with only 20 000 square metres of vineyard, but with a passion for it that I can't discribe, you have to see him. He's 80, but seems a lot younger, always smiling and telling stories about wines but also about the book he wrote (about his experiences in the resistance in WWII).
This wine farm existed when Napoleon (in 1797) passed here and it was always the same family.



With his daughter in law we made plans for pizza and wine evenings, degustations ...
I'm sure it will be great working with them !

Friday, January 8, 2010

Heavy Snowfall












They had predicted the snow, but 40 cm ... that's a little too much.