WHEN: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday (from March 28th to September 28th 2025)
DURATION: 6 hours (10:00 AM - 04:00 PM)
PRICE: euro 40,00 (+18 years old)
GUIDED TOUR AND WINE TASTING
Your experience begins with a guided tour of our winery. After the tour, you will enjoy a tasting of four wines representative of our winery and our region. The wines will be paired with some food tastings.
NB: we kindly ask you to arrive at the winery on time. The tour will start at exactly 10:00 AM.
PICNIC
After the wine tasting, you'll be given the picnic basket for your pause of relax amidst the vineyards.
The insulated picnic basket will contain:
• one sandwich with goat's milk cheese and vegetables
• one sandwich with salame
• one slice of homemade tart
• one bottle of water
• eco-friendly picnic-ware and wine glasses
You will also get 1 bottle (0,75 l) of frizzante white wine every 2/3 adults ("Columban", Provincia di Pavia IGT Pinot Nero vinificato in bianco).
IMPORTANT: please bring a picnic cloth with you
IMPORTANT: please let us know in advance if you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet or if you suffer from food allergies or intolerances.
IMPORTANT: we kindly ask you to come back to the agriturismo at 04:00 PM.
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?