Informazioni sull'esperienza
WHEN: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday
DURATION: 3 hours (noon - 03:00 PM)
PRICE: euro 35,00 (+18 years old)
GUIDED TOUR
Your experience begins with a guided tour of our winery. Our guide will introduce you to the Oltrepò Pavese wine tradition, the history of our family-run winery and our philosophy as winegrowers.We will stop in the vineyards and then visit the wine-making area and one of the rooms where we store our bottles of Metodo Classico sparkling wine during their ageing on the lees. The tour will end with an in-depth explanation of the Metodo Classico sparkling wines production.
WINE TASTING
You will taste 4 wines:
• Michél Extra Brut – Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG Pinot Nero
• Campo Dottore – Oltrepò Pavese DOC Riesling
• Fioravanti – Pinot Nero dell’Oltrepò Pavese DOC
• Siliquastro – Sangue di Giuda dell’Oltrepò Pavese DOC
PLATTER OF LOCAL FOOD
Your platter will include:
• Salame di Varzi DOP (Salumificio Romagnese)
• Coppa di Parma IGP (Valtidone Salumi)
• Fresh and aged goat’s milk cheese (Il Boscasso farm)
• homemade quiche
• bread and focaccia
• homemade dessert
IMPORTANT: please let us know if you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, or if you suffer from food allergies or intolerances.
The price of the experience includes water, coffee from the moka pot and service.
Prodotti in degustazione
Michél Extra Brut - Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG Pinot Nero
Campo Dottore - Oltrepò Pavese DOC Riesling
Fioravanti - Pinot Nero dell’Oltrepò Pavese DOC
Siliquastro - Sangue di Giuda dell’Oltrepò Pavese DOC
Informazioni sull'host
On the eleventh of November 1964, Luigi Calatroni was sitting at a table: in front of him was a sheet of paper with the stamp of the Montecalvo Versiggia municipality, a document that would change his life forever and that was just waiting for a signature... his!
That sheet of paper was a contract attesting to the transfer of ownership of the Casa Bella land from the Vecchietti family to Luigi. Until 1964, Luigi had cultivated those pinot noir vines as a sharecropper, like the four generations before him. The sharecropper was a winegrower who paid rent for the land with half of the vineyard's yield (and you know: for a winegrower, his grapes are like his children).
After years spent in the sun and rain tending the vines, after the terrible campaign in Russia during the Second World War and an adventurous return to his homeland with makeshift means, the Vigiö d'la Cà Bela (as he was called) had succeeded: he had conquered a strip of land in the Versa valley and would hand it down with pride to the next generation.
But let's move on to the present day. So many things have changed over the years: tractors are almost perfect machines, technology in the cellar has evolved and the concept of wine is no longer what it once was.
It's midday and from the kitchen comes the smell of freshly prepared agnolotti: Marisa calls everyone to report... "It's lunchtime! Fausto gets off the tractor, making sure that the hose isn't leaking oil, Cristian comes out of the cellar after making sure that all the barrels are in place and Stefano, back from deliveries, calls the girls into the office "It's ready!".
A family is sitting at a table in front of a plate of steaming agnolotti accompanied by a bottle of Pinot Noir. Amidst the hubbub of the table, a thought occasionally crops up... Would all this have been possible if Vigiö's tenacity had not pushed him to fulfil his dream?
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