Reasons Italian Wine Lovers Visit North Italy

Surveys that all the most famous travel magazines publish every year confirm: Italy is among the preferred countries of tourists from all over the world. Most of these visitors are Italian Wine Lovers.
The second point you can notice when you read reports of those magazines is that the top destinations of the visits remain normally the same, year after year.
This preference is not correct and deprives tourists, and especially Italian Wine Lovers, of many experiences other regions can offer. I want to mention only 10 reasons to organize a journey in two of them, Piedmont and Valle D'Aosta. Ad them in your travel plans if you want to enjoy an excellent relaxing vacation and unique local Italian wines.

View from the Fort of Bard

If you are accustomed to seeing enormous buildings of Rome and the infinite cultural heritage of Campania, north of Italy could seem not very interesting and not so impressive to you. But, like in other places, it's possible to discover hidden treasures here, too. They are maybe not so monumental or not so publicized like the Greek, Etruscan and Roman remain, but they are the testimonials of the not less dramatic events and extreme lifestyle you will learn to love.
Castles and residences with parks (many of them visitable) adorn this territory. Life of farmers and breeders is represented in the expositions of many little museums you can find in many villages.

The Italian High Altitude Wines

One of the first impressions that remain in the memory is just infinite vineyards you see along your road. If you do not think about it, you don't expect to find them in the Alps, but the miracle of this paradise on the Earth is that these southern plants find excellent conditions to grow here. They are protected by Mont Blanc and other mountains from the cold winds, the soil is rich in minerals and the diurnal-nocturnal changes of the temperatures add particular flavors to the wines produced in this zone.

Cave Mont Blanc  in Pavillon of the Skyway

It's really difficult to believe but you will find a producer of wine even in the Pavillon of the Skyway Funivie Monte Bianco at 2173 m above the sea level. You can taste this extra brut high altitude sparkling wine Cuvee des Guides that have particular characteristics donated them by the altitude, atmospheric pressure, and processing.
In the Valle, the conditions of the production are not so extreme but the vineyards reach 1200 m of altitude. The only native vintage is Prié Blanc but the vignerons of the Valle re-discover other vintages and the offer of excellent mountain wines is always more interesting.

The Wines of the Morainic Amphitheater

The territory of the morainic amphitheater of Ivrea is the motherland for different high-quality wines, DOC and DOCG status. The two "royalties" are Erbaluce (white) and Nebbiolo (red) grape varieties.
There are three technologies of winemaking for white wine: still, sparkling and passito, everyone has wines with prestigious awards. And the maximum grade of recognition, DOCG, has Erbaluce di Caluso. In the historical village of Caluso, you can participate in a wine feast and prize contests in honor of nymph Albaluce. This feast is organized in the first week of September.

Italian Wine Erbaluce di Caluso Tasting in Cantina della Serra

Red wine is made from the Nebbiolo vintage and the most appreciated is the Carema. The village of Carema is situated just on the border with Valle D'Aosta region in a little natural "amphitheater" with the vines that grow on the walls of it. The municipality created a very spectacular "path among the vines" where you can have a nice walk among the vineyards and admire the panoramic view of all the zone. This walk finishes in the cave of the Carema wine producers (Cantina Produttori Nebbiolo di Carema) to taste it and to purchase some bottles.

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