The farm Stra worked for five generations in a manner remarkably effective in its simplicity, marrying today the indispensable modern technology with the love of the fathers for the earth, its fruits and for the “job”. And perhaps it’s this “manuality” that infuses the true and sensitive soul in the wines. Spend a few days at the guesthouse means today to share the joy of living simply, but with a special attention to the quality of everything and a special ambition to be transmitted to each new guest.

The guests of the guesthouse can go hiking and cycling in the vineyards and walk, starting from the company, the path of Barolo linking the eleven municipalities of the renowned wine. At any time you can take a guided tour of the winery and taste the great wines that will accrue.

Bussia in Monforte d’Alba is not only a little village, a place set in the wonderful panorama of the Langhe, it is one of the first outstanding  sub-zones, famous for generating wines with complex and constant organoleptic originality. Fond appraisers worldwide have acknowledged these characteristics.

It is in these hills that rises the Farm Silvano Bolmida, where 5 hectares of vineyards are cultivated by the Bolmida family with a special attention to the low amounts of grapes for every singles vine. A frequent tillage ensures not only a natural weedkiller  but also a right oxygenation and an organic change in the deepest layers. During the harvest the grapes are handpicked,  the development of the analytic and polyphenolic values of  every single portion of vineyard is taken into account in order to produce wines whose flavour richness and elegance are characteristics already present in each bunch. The long fermentation on the skins gives the wine its organoleptic completeness. The immediate placing in barrique and tonneaux  (only few  are new) with lees helps the polymerization and the stabilization of the  polyphenolic constituents. The bottling without filtering guarantees the total respect of its characteristics. A long fining in bottle – 14 months and longer as for Barolo – succeeds in getting my wine ready to drink when released and it will be up to the consumer whether to appreciate their harmonious youth or waiting for the complexity in the evolution. In both cases the wine represents the identity of the vine, of the area, of the producer and of his family.

Costa di Bussia winery is located between Barolo and Monforte d’Alba, in the heart of Langa! It has almost 150 years of history. The tour in the vineyard and in the Museum describes the brand, the territory and the wines. The Historical Museum dedicated to Luigi Arnulfo, the man who in the 1874 founded this estate and played a fundamental role in the local enology, exhibits Luigi Arnulfo’s objects and letters he received from customers all over the world. The tour includes the visit to the renovated cellar where it is possible to discover the traditional winemaking process.

The tour ends with a tasting of our wines, which are also for sale in our little shop. Costa di Bussia offers three different rooms, with private bathroom and common kitchen, and an independent suite, where you can completely relax surrounded in this great landscape.

The Historical Museum Luigi Arnulfo

The Museum tells Luigi Arnulfo’s life. Letters and objects show Arnulfo as a man, a winemaker and a businessman. Nowadays he is considered the pioneer of the Barolo wine, the first one who shipped Barolo in the North of America in 1890.

Tour and tasting

In the tour, you can visit the 11 hectares of vineyards that surround the farmhouse and get in touch with this special terroir. Then you will see the renovated cellar to understand all the winemaking steps and at the end the wine tasting will explain you all details about our products. Booking compulsory, from Thursday to Monday, from 10 am to 6 pm.

Wine shop

The wine shop is in the ancient part of the farmhouse, where you may buy all the Costa di Bussia wines: Langhe doc Chardonnay, Dolcetto d’Alba doc, Barbera d’Alba doc, Barbera d’Alba doc vigna Campo del Gatto, Langhe doc Nebbiolo Arcaplà, Barolo docg Bussia, Barolo docg  Bussia Vigna Campo dei Buoi, Barolo docg  Arnulfo (0,75 L e 3 L), Barolo docg Riserva, Barolo Chinato and Grappa of Barolo. We are open from Thursday to Monday from 10 am to 6 pm.

Hospitality: rooms

In the same house where Luigi Arnulfo lived his life, we obtained three rooms, each one with private bathroom and common kitchen and an outside Jacuzzi. Here you can completely relax, surrounded by vineyards, in a strategical position to reach the most important places of the Cuneo district and not only!

Camera Campo dei Buoi

This room takes the name from the historical vineyards Campo dei Buoi (Oxen’s field, if you translate), already mentioned in some old documents of the XIX century. It has an elegant double bed, a private bathroom, with a total surface of 26 square meters.  The entrance is through the common living space and kitchen.

Camera Campo del Gatto

This room takes the name from historical vineyards Campo del Gatto (Cat’s field, if you translate), already mentioned in some old documents of the XIX century. It has an original rounded double bed, a private bathroom, with a total surface of 20 square meters.  The entrance is through the common living space and kitchen.

Camera Arcapla’

This room takes the name from a Costa di Bussia wine. It’s a double room with twin beds, a private bathroom and a total surface of 20 square meters. The entrance is through the common living-kitchen.

Suite Luigi Arnulfo

This apartment is dedicated to the winery’s founder. The suite has a private entrance and 60 square meters of total surface composed of a room with a double bed, a living room with a sofa-bed, a full-accessorized kitchen and a bathroom with Sauna and Jacuzzi.

On May 15, 1841 the police office of the royal Military Command in Alba granted Luigi Costamagna, son of the estate’s founder Francesco Antonio Costamagna, an official licence “to retail the wine produced from his own vineyards” in La Morra. In 1911, Francesco Costamagna and his son Riccardo were awarded a gold medal at the “Gran Premio dell’Esposizione Internazionale di Torino” for fifty years of winemaking. When Francesco died, his son Riccardo, an attorney, continued to manage the winery with the help of his wife Maddalena. When he died in the 1930s, Riccardo’s wife decided to sell the vineyards located outside La Morra. Wine was produced only for the family’s own consumption and some grapes were sold to other winemakers.

In the late 1960s, Maddalena’s niece, Claudia Ferraresi, together with her husband Giorgio Locatelli, restarted the commercial winemaking activity, planted new vineyards and modernised the old winery. Since the mid 1980s their son Alessandro Locatelli has been managing the winery with the help of agronomist Gian Piero Romana and enologist Giuseppe Caviola. Alessandro has improved the vineyards and wine-making techniques, he has been developing customer sales all over the world, and so carrying on the family tradition with passion and drawing on the wealth of experience gathered by the family.

Right in La Morra town centre, thanks to a careful renovation of the old farmhouse adjoining the winery, are our four guest rooms. Each “Art Suite” is enhanced with original antique furnishings charmingly set in a modern context. Hanging prominently are beautiful works of art by the artist Claudia Ferraresi, Alessandro Locatelli’s mother.

Rediscover the flavors of the authentic Piedmontese tradition. Recreating the tastes of the most authentic and genuine Langhe cuisine is our ultimate objective. We proudly carry on the tradition of the classic hand made pasta, according to the methods passed on by our grandmothers, and of the dishes seasoned with mushrooms and truffles, the two ingredients that have marked the culinary history of these lands.

1897 – A STORY BEGINS

The history of Luigi Einaudi Farms started in 1897, when Luigi Einaudi, only twenty-three years old, bought the farm “San Giacomo” in the municipality of Dogliani, a noble eighteenth-century building with a converted chapel in ruins and 15 hectares cultivated with vineyard. Under the guidance of the founder, Senator Luigi Einaudi, the farm started bottling Dolcetto and to make it known outside the borders of the region, where it was relegated. The ‘Professor’, as he was affectionately called in Dogliani, never neglected his vineyards and despite the many professional commitments, to the onerous task of President of the Republic, he never failed to San Giacomo in the days of harvest. The Einaudi family has inherited the passion and continued to improve the vineyards and refine their technique of conducting the research of the highest quality of the grapes, which is essential to get great wines. The work takes place in the cellar “Cascina Tecc” completely underground to reduce the environmental impact and to ensure a constant temperature and humidity in the area of ​​maturation. The wine is made in modern steel fermenters with computer controlled pumping and temperature of fermentation, then the wine is aged in oak barrels of medium and small volume to finish the bottle aging.

The farm “Poderi Einaudi” continues to grow by investing in the best vineyards. The latest acquisitions are the prestigious “Vigna Cannubi” in Barolo and four acres in the hills of Barbaresco. Today, 52 hectares of vineyards, of the 140 acres total, are entrusted to the care of workforce who live in 11 farmhouses within the estate. The wines are produced from grapes grown in the Farms.

Matteo Sardagna, son of Paola, the grandson of Luigi Einaudi, is responsible for conducting “Poderi Einaudi” following the family tradition and teaching of the President: “innovation while respecting tradition.”

The structure also has a Relais guesthouse with ten rooms: www.relaiseinaudi.com

The “Podere Ruggeri Corsini” estate was founded in 1995 by Loredana Addari and her husband Nicola Argamante, both graduated in Viticulture and Enology with a common passion for the countryside and great wines.

«Some time ago, we decided to change our lives. We left our jobs as researchers for the agricultural university of Turin, to buy a small property in the heart of the Langhe: Monforte d’Alba – says Nicola. It is a winery that is still family-owned: the property is, in fact, managed and cared for by the two of us and our two daughters Francesca and Vittoria. The winery takes its name “Corsini” from the small hamlet of Monforte d’Alba where it is located. The name “Ruggeri,” on the other hand, is the surname of my mother who, believing in us, helped us realize our dream by financing the beginning of the winery.».

At first, our production only included the great Langhe classics such as Dolcetto d’Alba, Barbera d’Alba, and Barolo, which, over the years, were complemented by other wines, both red, rosé, and white. In 1996, 6,000 bottles were produced, mainly sold abroad.

At the moment it is possible to find Podere Ruggeri Corsini wines in the United States (main market), Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Holland, Japan, Australia, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and, of course, Italy.

Special attention is given to preserving the environment. In fact, the winery has taken action on many aspects of the production in order to make them more environmentally sustainable. Some of the initiatives are: the adoption of lightweight bottles, the installation of a phyto-purification system, thermal and photovoltaic solar panels and the cultivation of our vineyards in a certified eco-sustainable way (European certification SQNPI).

The winery’s production varies depending on the vintage between 85,000 and 90,000 bottles. Special attention is paid to wine and food-loving tourists, who can discover and taste the wines in the tasting room.

Tradition makes history alive: a philosophy that has allowed the Azienda Vinicola Palladino to sell its bottles mainly in the international market.

A history of wine and life that is very relevant, testified by the private small museum set in an old room renovated in the early nineties, under the cellar. In this room you can find all agricultural and enological equipment used in the past decades: a blast from the past to remember the strong link between wine and territory. A blue veined wall of that room seems to tell about the work in the vineyard.

A company originated with an extremely precise idea: endorse at the utmost the potentialities of the native grape varieties and the land of Langa.

Company History 

The Olivero Mario wine house was founded in 2003 by the young Lorenzo Olivero. At the end of his University Degree in Viticulture and Oenology at Turin University, he decided, with the help of his father Mario, to start a company focused on a small but quality production. «The idea that motivated me since the beginning – explains Lorenzo – was to produce a little, but do it well: the goal was to be able to become recognizable for some peculiarities, as, for example, the Dolcetto d’Alba “Buschet”, which ages for four years in wooden barrels ». The principle at the base of this product is the same for all the other wines produced by the Olivero company, that is the will to reconsider a grape variety which has always been underestimated: «in agreement with my father – continues Lorenzo – I chose to manage all the wines with the same care and the same attention which are normally only given to Barolo».

Vineyards 

The winery manages about 6 hectares of vineyards, located in the municipalities of Roddi, La Morra, Alba and Rodello. Among these, the new Fontanassa vineyard situated above the cellar, represents the Lorenzo’s challenge to conventions, In fact this was planted in 2016 with some of particular grape varieties. Lorenzo approaches to viticulture in a “natural” way, trought low environmental impact and without the use of herbicides. The winery produces today 7 different wines. In addition to the previously mentioned Dolcetto d’Alba “Buschet”, the range includes one Barolo, two Barbera d’Alba, one Langhe Nebbiolo, one Langhe Arneis, and the most classic Dolcetto d’Alba.

Langa Style

Great importance is also given to the promotion, which Lorenzo has decided to carry on together with other producers, who he loves to call “colleagues” instead of “competitors”, under the brand “Langa Style”: «we are a group of friends who work with passion, sharing customers and acting as a team to present our territory at its best and the very best of the productions that distinguish it».

The Cellar 

The Cellar, which dates back to the end of 1980s, exists on two floors, one of which is the basement used for wine-making and aging. The facility also has a tasting hall able to welcome up to ten people at a time. Upon appointment (via email or calling the number +39  333 2389773) it is possible to visit the Cellar and, if the weather conditions allow it, the vineyard too. Visits and guided tastings of up to three kinds of wines are free.

The Oberto family can claim to have early origins reaching as far back as 1200. On a land register for La Morra there are references to the Germanic surname of Obertus. In more recent times other testimonies underline the close bond with the territory of La Morra, with specific references even to the cultivation of vines from 1800 onwards. By the end of the 1950s, Luigi Oberto, along with his father Giovenale, was cultivating the 2 hectares of Nebbiolo on the hill of Bricco San Biagio, and selling the grapes at the Alba market.

In these years, to avoid being subjected to the decisions of dealers and merchants and their imposition of iniquitous prices, Luigi decided to create his own winery and produce the wine himself, aiming to optimise the value of his own work. The first years’ production of Barolo were bottled from 1961 onwards. The limited yield amounted to a few thousand bottles: part of the wine from the best cask became a reserve, whereas a part of the production was sold unbottled to the major producers of the area. As the years went by, more land was given over to the growing of vines, until the present-day 12 hectares were reached. This land includes not only the valuable vine-growing slopes purchased over the years, but also the vineyards inherited by his wife Maria Beatrice in the historic Roggeri cru.

The winery now in use was built in the 1980s on the site which has always been known as Ciabot Berton. The small building (ciabot, in Piedmont dialect) which stands here once belonged to a certain Berton, who had attempted to set up manufacturing fireworks here, and had burnt out the building and destroyed its roof. This old ruin, which gave its name to the business, can still be seen from the winery, and is surrounded by the Nebbiolo vineyard. The new winery is therefore sited in a dominant position, where it enjoys views of the wonderful landscape which opens out over the hills of Barolo. On clear days, gazing towards the north, the peaks of Cervino and the mass of Monte Rosa stand out, while in the opposite direction the villages of the Alta Langa form a hinge between Piedmont and Liguria.

From the 1990s, Luigi’s children Marco, an oenologist, and Paola, an agronomist, began working with him. Increasingly aware of the quality and full potential of the vineyards and their Nebbiolo grapes, they decided to vinify the grapes of the different vineyards separately, selecting the best batches of Barolo for bottling. In this way, by making a few important adjustments in production to add to Luigi’s great experience, the wines of Ciabot Berton have become steadily more widely known and appreciated.