Hotel Regina Acqui Terme

Viale M.Donati, 2 Acqui Terme, Piedmont, 15011, Italy

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Bbq and trip

A travel blog entry by culauralynn

... We leave Saturday morning around 600am to head to Florence. Our trip will be to Florence, Sienna, Rome and Pompeii. We will spend a few days in each town. While I have been to Florence and Rome already, I am very excited to go back with architecture professors. When we were there before we saw art and reviewed Renaissance artists. This will be a new perspective and I can't wait! Plus it's nice to get away from the Villa (as if ...

Lunch and Sightseeing

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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... and the whole experience. As well it was the Goodbye to Enrico who was such a great host and we all did enjoy our time.

After an amazing Lunch we went into the city of Alba. A few of us decided to go for a coffee somewhere inside as it was raining all afternoon. I decided with some of us to have a little walk around the city of Alba. We did found a sign for the truffle market and than ...

Barolo Tasting

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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... they could both do with another 5 years and than they would be just perfect.

At last we tasted a Barolo from 2006. It was very strong and very tannic. Its acidity was good, too. For me personal it was still to heavy and I would buy it for keeping it in the cellar for another 10 years. Some of us liked that wine very well and would enjoy it, as they like to have wines with lots of tannins. I think this all is again down to personal taste.

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Good morning!

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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... so far... 5 wines to taste and that by 10am in the morning. I call that a good start in the day.

After breakfast we all decide to go for little walk around the vinyards and get us all proberly awak. We decided to walk down the whole hill to the hazlenut trees. It wasn't to hard to get down but the way up... Bloody hell that was quite a journey. We arrived on top totally out of breath. But we were defenetly awake after ...

Dinner time

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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... Followed by a Grappa which is produced by Enricos grapes. As well we tasted his dessert wine, which was quite interesting. It had a good hint of a nice herb liquor and I absolutly loved it. Especially I fought the whole day with my voice as I kept loosing it. However as soon as I tasted that wine my throat was suddenly cleared and I found my voice back. Everyone thought it was funny and I said I will take it with me to have a sip in the morning. ...