๐ท After 25 years living in Piedmont, we thought we had tasted every remarkable wine the region had to offer. Then we visited Maestro Domenico Taparo Merlo at his vineyard in Canavese โ and everything changed.
Erbaluce di Caluso is one of Piedmont’s oldest and most overlooked white wines. While the world obsesses over Barolo and Barbaresco, this golden “liquid light” from the Alpine foothills has been quietly captivating wine lovers โ and even Burgundian sommeliers โ for centuries.
And then there is the wine trick Domenico showed us. After 25 years in Italy, we had never seen anything like it.
๐ CHAPTERS
0:00 A wine trick we’d never seen in 25 years
0:16 Italy’s Most Forgotten Ancient Wine
0:42 Arriving at the vineyard โ Canavese, Piedmont
2:17 A Puccini opera connection in the vineyard
3:46 The ceramic aerator โ demonstrated
3:58 What “Kin” means in three languages
5:06 Why Burgundian sommeliers were impressed
5:16 The Raisin Wine Surprise
6:29 Replicating the trick at home
7:17 From Piedmont to Sicily โ What’s Next
๐ ABOUT THIS WINE Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG is produced from the ancient Erbaluce grape in the Canavese area of northern Piedmont, beneath the Alps. The name โ meaning “light of the grass” or “golden light” โ reflects the wine’s luminous, amber-golden colour. It remains largely unknown outside Piedmont, yet it is one of Italy’s most remarkable indigenous white varieties.
The Merlo Tappero Domenico estate is a small, family-run winery producing Erbaluce in its classic, Passito, and sparkling forms โ each one a reflection of what Domenico calls “vinegrowing as art.”
๐ฎ๐น ABOUT TIM AND RINA After 25 years of living and travelling in Piedmont, we have moved to Sicily to begin a new chapter. We are restoring our home near the ancient Greek settlement of Selinunte, just five minutes from the Mediterranean.
This video is part of our Piedmont archive โ memories of a region we loved, and still love.
๐ Tell us โ what would you like to see from our new life in Sicily?
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