Rivaling Tuscany as the most famous wine region of Italy is Piedmont.
The capital of Peidmont is Turino (you may recall they had the Olympics there some years back). This region is known for a grape called Nebiolo. Many famous wines in this region, such as Barolo, Barbaresco, and Asti.
We're staying two nights in La Morra, and two nights in Monforte d'Alba. Amusingly they're less than 10 miles apart from one another :)
Piedmont may be the most beautiful region I've see so far:
The Alps to the North, and endless vineyards.
At this lookout point in La Morra they have this cool plaque with a map that you can use to identify the towns on the horizon.
Piedmont is also known for truffles, and we found a particularly dangerous store in La Morra.
An assortment of various truffley products.
We may have left here with one or two jars. Or ten.
So Barolo is only about two miles from La Morra. Two very winding miles. But we drove down there a few times for wine and food. I have to give a special shout out to a place called La Cantinetta.
Great food! Kyra and I sat down outside in the sun. I ordered a risotto made from Barolo. When Kyra originally went to order, they asked her if she wanted to try a special hand made chicken ravioli that they were working on. Once she ordered it, they apologized and said that they'd run out, so she went with a cheese ravioli. But they were so apologetic that they kept bringing us dish after dish of food on the house. Some of the best pasta we've had on the trip!
Check out how yellow the yolk on this egg is. The dish was a single ravioli with an egg yolk inside.
We visited two wineries on Tuesday.
This is Chiara Boschi. We tried many of her wines, which she primarily makes herself.
The second winery was Silvio Grasso, at which Kyra made a new friend.
Later that day I was out shooting photos and saw the sun setting over Piedmont. I shot several photos, I think this was the best.
Wow. Just read this for the first time. Amazing stuff man!!! - Glenn
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