20/10/2025
Barbaresco and Barolo! What started as a quick visit turned very subtly into ”one more night? Maybe two? A week? Maybe two?” We fell in love with Piedmont. Everything about it was warm, welcoming and delicious. Starting with a drive up the mountain of La Morra for dinner at Osteria More e Macine, to date Pat’s favourite meal in Italy.
We visited, tasted and dined at so many incredible places, it’s hard to only name a few!
Our Piedmont w**e journey started with a visit to the much adored Giuseppe Cortese (4th picture) for a w**ery & vineyard tour, and an in-depth tasting of their current releases, celebrating their place in the Rabaja. After an amazing lunch at aromatario_neive, we made our way to meet the incredible family tirelessly working at Azienda Agricola Ronchi, led by 4th generation w**emaker Giancarlo. Together with his wife (and dilligent translator) we shared w**e making techniques, the intricacies of terracotta amphora, soil organics, and the ups and downs of this amazing industry across the world… and of course a few bottles of w**e. (5th picture) We thank all three of these businesses for an incredible introduction to Piedmont.
Barolo Town (pictured 1 and 2) - We couldn’t go past mentioning the powerhouse gdvajra_barolo, with a detailed tour and tasting, featuring their dramatic w**ery featuring intricate stain glass windows, and their enviously massive underground cellar and incredibly detailed w**es - everything was superb. And the infallible scarzellofede where we were welcomed like family. We had the opportunity to try some truely exceptional Barolo and Barbera in their family home, a few examples of which may have came home with us in our packs.
