Piedmont Wine Tours

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We are specialized in wine tours, food tours, and wine tastings in the areas of Barolo, Barbaresco, Langhe, Roero and Monferrato.

Italy Destination Wedding

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A beautifully designed wedding, flawlessly planned and executed how you have imagined.

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Barolo

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Tips and Tricks on how to make your perfect Barolo vacation a reality.

Barbaresco

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Tips from a local; the insider guide to Barbaresco wine area.

Torino

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Torino (Turin) is the birthplace for many things, let’s explore this city together!

ARBOREUS in Latin meaning vines that grow like a tree 🌳 These Trebbiano Spoletino vines are literally growing up a tree! This is an ancient technique used today by very few as the vine needs time to grow 15 feet up the tree and few more years before it is ready to be in production. These vines are what goes into Paolo Bea’s Umbria Bianco Arboreus. In this field there were only about 15 trees holding a Trebbiano vine and each vine will produce 40 kilograms of grapes!!! That is about 40 bottles per tree. 💪🏼 How the harvest takes place is a lot of teamwork, as one person will need to climb up by a latter to reach the grapes 🍇 and then hand them to the people on the ground to be placed in baskets 🧺. After the harvest has taken place the grapes will undergo a fermentation on the skins for 22 days, and a further 191 days in contact with the fine lees. This making this wine a beautiful golden color with an intense bouquet, amazing acidity, and a wee bit of tannins. Making this wine suitable for further aging. #trebbiano #naturalwine #organicwine #viniveri #winelife #winetourism
WE LOVE MAURO ❤️ from CASA DI TAJARIN 🍝 pronounced (thai-yah-reen) Mauro has spent many years searching out the best ancient grains and experimenting with many combinations of these flours to create the perfect pasta. He works with farms mainly in Italy but also some in other parts of Europe. The flour must be organic and he prefers to work with historical mills that are still working with ancient techniques to mill the flour. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 @mulinomarino @pastagrannies #tajarin #foodie #homemadepasta #pasta #pastagrannies #italianfood #ancientgrains #amandaswineadventures #foodtour
The days when I can hand select some of my favorite examples of Piedmont’s grapes 🍇 and regions are always a nice treat 🍭. I 🧡 giving and overview of our beautiful region and explaining to my guests about the wines, grapes, regions, and rules while enjoying a glass of wine 🍷!!! Thank you to the @innovationacademy For letting me show you some of Piedmont’s best. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 #roero #arneis #dianodalba #dolcetto #monferrato #barberadasti #langhe #barbaresco #barolo #nebbiolo #moscatodiasti #amandaswineadventures
WINERY QUIZ TIME!!! This winery was founded in 1921 and today it is run by the 4th generation👨‍👩‍👧‍👧, and still growing in size. We had the chance to taste a lot of new entry menzione geografica aggiuntivi aka MEGA aka Cru aka Single Vineyard, that were just spectacular. Lots of things have been changing at this winery over the past few years. Can you name a few? Which winery are we talking about? What is your favorite wine 🍷 from their lineup? - - - - #sommelier #sommlife #barolo #barbaresco #winerytour #winequiz #amandaswineadventures
Let’s talk about the different fermentation tanks that you might find in a Piedmontese winery. - The old school way of fermenting wine was in the upright wooden fermenters. Once upon a time they were open top, but today they are closed except for a small door to allow oxygen to enter co2 to escape and in case you want to use them age you can just close the top and ecco, an age if vessel. - Next to the wooden fermenter you have the Rotofermenters, which are new school. Invented in the 1980-1990’s taken from the idea of the machines that melted the chocolate. These fermentation tanks are temperature controlled and have automated paddles inside to gently mix the skins into the juice for a faster more concentrated maceration. - Lastly you have a tank that also is making a comeback. Cement! These heavyweights are great for fermentation and also storange as the cement is so thick and heavy it is very hard to change its ambient temperature. This was a material used mostly in the 1960’s, still used widely in the South of Italy, but they are being dusted off here in Piedmont to use again. - Have you seen these kinds of tanks being used? Have you seen any others? - #winemaking #winelife #fermentation #sommlife #sommelier #naturalwine #amandaswineadventures #wineispop #barolo #barbaresco #cultwine
WE LIKE TO HAVE FUN!!!!🍷 Tasting wine with the producer is always a fun thing. Especially when they are a New Zealand transplant who has been living in the Langhe for the past +25 years. The stories that Jeff has to tell are amazing, of a Langhe before English was spoken, before tourism, the history that needs to be told before it is forgotten. In the time Jeff has been here he has seen a lot of changes of this once sleepy hamlet of Barbaresco to now a place with bustling wine bars and loud crowded restaurants. Jeff, pictured here, has been with Marchesi di Gresy since the 1990’s and has made a name for himself world wide. I mean everybody knows Jeff and no visit to the Langhe is complete without getting to meet up for a winery visit and a very long and intense blind tasting afterward🙂. @marchesidigresy 📸by @letiziacigliutti 🖤 #winelover #winetour #sommelier #winemaker #wineispop #barbaresco #nebbiolo #amandaswineadventures #unescoworldheritage