Piedmont Wine Tours
“In wine there is Truth”- Pliny the Elder
If that is true, then one should say that in Piedmont there is plenty of truth. With 52 classified wines in this region. There are several traditional wines of both the red and white variety. The bubbly sparkling, the sweet or textured, Our Piedmont wine tasting tours acquaints you with them all.
The Standard
As in the rest of Italy there is a standard of quality and price that is maintained, by regulatory governmental bodies that categorize the wines based on certain clear criteria.
The central quality is naturally the produce, the grape itself and various other criteria label a wine as from a DOC or DOCG zones; the latter being the more expensive and exclusive wine. Our Piedmont wine tour packages travel through all these viticulture zones.
The Grape
The red nebbiolo grape is the one that gives these traditional red wines, the Barbera, Barbaresco and Barolo are the predominant reds. Yet unlike the Tuscany region where the famous Chianti rules, the celebrated Piemontese wine is the Asti, a bubbly white wine from the Elba region. There are many other well known wines which you can experience in our wine tour, Piedmont being a prize winning wine country.
The little Rascal
This translates in Piemontese to Arneis a dry white wine and a grape from which it is produced; so called because the cultivation of the Arneis is a little difficult. Yet in the transition of the seasons it is Arneis you would reach for. Our Piedmont wine tours would guide your palate through all these exciting flavors.
Wine tours in Piedmont are popular because there are no rivals to the Piemontese wines in Italy.
Piedmonte produces the Asti white wines that include Moscato and sparkling Asti Spumante. The region is also home to the full-bodied reds that include Barbera, Barolo and Barberesco.
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