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Rainero Hotel Asti

Via Cavour 85 Asti, Piedmont, Italy

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Lunch and Sightseeing

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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After our tasting we went then of for Lunch in a fine dinning restaurant in Piemont. The place was amazing and apparently you could look at the Alps. However the weather wasn't on our side and the clouds hung very low in the hills so we couldn't see them.
Lunch was amazing over the next 7 courses we had sparkling wine and more wines from Rivetto. It was great time to catch up on the ...

Barolo Tasting

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

5

... just a beauty. The wine was on its peak and just in the perfect age for drinking. The acidity and tannins were very well balanced and the texture was smooth with a good length to it. Definitely a wine I could drink with a nice meal over the whole evening. Just beautiful!

Next we tasted a 2001 Barolo followed by the Vintage of 2004. Both of these wine very already very good. The tannins were quite strong but definitely you could enjoy those once already. For ...

Good morning!

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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Today we got up at around 8am and I had an absolut amzing night sleep after I went to be last night at 11pm. I slept so well that you could have carrying me out of my room and put me into the vinyard without me noticing it till the nest morning.
Right now I am sitting at breakfast and obvious we are allready talking about wine... Bare in mind it is just about 9:30am and Enrico is decanting some wine for us to taste. It ...

Dinner time

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

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We all had a great little break befor dinner. I freshened my self up a bit and changed into some different cloth. I as well talked a little bit more with Petra who was working as well for Exclusive Hotels and we got to know us a little better. At 7pm we had than dinner in the wine cellar. It was beautifully set up for us and of cours we had even more wines to drink while we enjoyed some local food. Through the whole evening we drunk about 6 ...

On the vineyards

A travel blog entry by dodotheexplorer

5

... and even the fermentation process was allready finished. The walk around the vinyard show me a great picture of all the different aspects which are influencing the wine.
We now went into the winery where the grapes where pressed and than fermentet, stored in the french oak barrels and than bottled. Intersting to see and Enrico explained us how he is producing his red wines. During the visit in the winery we as well tasted some more wines. We tasted ...

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