Piemont is one of the great winegrowing regions in Italy, located in the Northern part of Italy, bordering France and Switzerland. The region produces wines of renowned depth such as the famed Barbera, Barolo, Barbaresco and Moscato.
This was reason enough for six of us to hire a car and to do a weekend trip from Lucerne, Switzerland, down to our Southern neighbour.
During these three days, we visited three local winemakers.
Before wine tasting (the psychedelic part) the winemakers always showed us their wine cellar where the fermentation of their wine takes place, and they gave us some intersting facts about their production. Well, knowledge transfer was not really huge, since all six of us don’t really speak Italian, but as the Italian are quite good in using hand gestures, we sometimes got an idea of what they were talking of…
This video sequence shows the visiting of Mr Ferrio’s wine cellar in Canale, Piedmont, Italy (Azienda Agricola Cascina Cà Rossa, http://www.langhe.net/cascinacarossa/ ). That’s what we were calling the “Cultural part” of the wine tasting…