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One of the producers I visited during my Piemonte wine trip was Torraccia del Piantavigna, located in Ghemme. Interestingly, this is a unique winery in the area, who is allowed to produce both DOCGs Ghemme and Gattinara in the same time. By law Gattinara DOCG is to be produced and bottled in Gattinara area, Ghemme DOCG is to be crafted and bottled in Ghemme area. But as historically Torraccia del Piantavigna was one of the first wineries build in Ghemme but having vineyards

In the small wine production zone of Gattinara, where total acreage of the vineyards is only about 90 hectares, having property of almost a half of them means you're one among a couple of the largest #wine producers. This is said about Travaglini, who definitely deserves an attention. Travaglini has 44 hectares planted under vines in #Gattinara in Piemonte, the majority of them of course is Nebbiolo (locally known as Spanna) one of the noblest grape varieties in the world, an

When I was planning my Gattinara wine trip of course I also planned to visit some wineries in Ghemme area, which is located on another side of Sesia river, just in 10 min driving from #Gattinara. Unfortunately Ghemme wine area is not well-known abroad, by the way even inside Italy as well, although they produce very good wines from Nebbiolo grape under Ghemme DOCG, but, same as Gattinara, it's just not that much commercialized outside of Italy. So pity, as the area itself is

If you would like to see beautiful Gattinara vineyards, not only wineries located in the town, then you have to drive out of the town and climb up onto the hill, where Torre delle Castelle is located (google map is your best friend, as usual). The road is super narrow and extremely steep, with a super sharp curves, where you absolutely have no control of what's going on in front of you because of permanently upcoming turns... and it's basically a one way only, but of course e

That was my first winery visited in Gattinara, a micro production zone in Piemonte region. In general there are not so many wine producers located, even though the wines of Gattinara DOCG are made from the famous #Nebbiolo grapes, but Gattinara area itself is far not that much commercialized and promoted in the world as Barolo and Barbaresco, zones of wines crafted from same Nebbiolo grapes. This calmness and exclusivity of #Gattinara in reality is good, because here you can