Our wines

Traditional and innovative recipes live in perfect symbiosis with the important wine offer of the many local producers.

In recent years the Terre del Giarolo district is in fact establishing itself as an area of refined and high quality wine production.

From our lands and our vines, our excellent wines that our winemakers have been able to select and produce with infinite patience and peasant wisdom.
In this area, in fact, growing vines and producing wine are activities that date back many decades, indeed centuries.

Today, however, the new cultivation, production and aging techniques have allowed our wines to gain prestige positions widely recognized on the occasion of national and international wine exhibitions and reviews.

Barbera

Barbera is the most cultivated vine in Piedmont and in the Terre del Giarolo it finds one of its highest areas of adoption.
The large production and its quality contribute to spread the knowledge of this area by exporting its various potentialities in the wine sector.
The characteristics of the soil of the Tortona Hills mean that the wines derived from this grape are well structured, with strong tannins and a freshness that allows for both good aging and good longevity and are characterized by a certain elegance.
Strictly still, according to the best Piedmontese tradition, this wine presents itself upon visual examination with an intense ruby red color. The aromas are those of ripe red fruit (cherry, blackberry).
The good acidity and richness in mineral salts give it freshness and flavor.

Derthona Timorasso

It is a native vine and can be considered a welcome return, indeed, a benign resurrection. In this area it thrives thanks to the prolonged exposure to the sun and the particular characteristics of the soil. Produced since ancient times, and abundantly cultivated, “Timuras” has experienced a long period of neglect due to the difficulties associated with its production. Only towards the end of the 1980s was it rediscovered by some young winemakers and it began to spread again in the territories that traditionally welcomed it. It is a wine with particular characteristics: it is a dry and warm white, with a complex aroma and light hints of honey, full-bodied and with a good structure, with a straw-yellow color tending to load and a fresh flavor with a characteristic intense and persistent aroma. With a higher alcohol content than the average of the whites of the area, Timorasso earns with a long aging in bottle and offers a wide range of possible combinations to represent a refined and successful “whole meal”.

Croatina

Bonarda di Rovescala or simply Bonarda in the Oltrepò Pavese and, in some areas of Piedmont, Crovattina or Uva (or Uga) del zio. Croatina is not to be confused with Bonarda (Piedmontese), nor with Crova, the name with which some designate Lambrusca di Alessandria. In the Tortona area, where it has acclimatized and adapted to predominantly calcareous-clayey soils, poorly humid and with good exposure. in the sun, today it is vinified in purity by many producers even if the disciplinary allows it to be blended with other black berried grapes authorized in modest quantities. It was historically used to give grace to the exuberant barbera and therefore contain its robustness. A wine with excellent evolutionary potential, on which the winemakers of the area are working hard.

Cortese

This vine, indigenous to the province of Alessandria and in the past commonly called “courteisa” or “courteis”, has found areas of choice in the Tortona hills, where it has been bred since the mid-19th century. The gentle undulations on the top of the Tortona ridges, characterized by a temperate microclimate, devoid of sharp and strong variations and always exposed to light and the color of the sun, are the ideal location.
Due to its lively qualities and its delicate perfumed vein, the “Colli Tortonesi Cortese” is pleasantly paired with lean appetizers, dry pasta and dishes based on fish products. It is also suitable for white meats with sauces and risottos cooked with Cortese wine. The Colli Tortonesi Cortese Frizzante (sparkling) and the Colli Tortonesi Spumante (sparkling wine), on the other hand, are particularly suitable with an aperitif, throughout the meal and to celebrate happy anniversaries.