Benvenuti in Piemonte

We created this site for friends, friends-of-friends, rabbit-hole enthusiasts, and family coming to visit. The site is an homage to the food, wine, and towns that — and townspeople who — make this region of Italy so uniquely spectacular. They are inextricably, exquisitely bound. 

La Coccinella

Food

Forget what you learned about “Italian” food; regional food is highly particular, often peculiar, and ubiquitous

Nebbiolo

Wine

There’s more to the region than Barolo and Barbaresco and more varieties than Nebbiolo, Barbera or Dolcetto

Piedmont

Some say there’s more to life than eating and drinking; if I agreed (and I don’t), here are the towns worth the drive

Lonely Planet picks Piedmont as the world’s top region to visit in 2019. It’s always great to have one’s opinion validated, and their write-up is a good place to start, but Piemonte is fairly large (second only to Sicily) and it’s impossible to contain it to a “top 10”. Even Food Wine Piedmont (FWP) is focused largely on one Piedmont province: Cuneo. And more granular than that, the towns and villages within and around the Langhe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. If you’re a wine lover, you know the Langhe is home to Barolo and Barbaresco wines. If you are a food lover, you know that the Langhe is home to Alba and its indescribable white truffle. Please don’t let the boundaries of your knowledge limit your experience here. For instance, there are 12 varietals of red and 6 white varietals grown in Piemonte. Piedmont is also the most productive and creative cheese-making area in Italy with over 30 types of cheese: goat, cow, hard, soft, fresh and seasoned cheeses — 9 DOP certified cheeses in all. And there’s our unique breed of cattle: Fassone that produces meat which is tender, lean and low in fat (similar to the fat content of most fish), but also nutritious (unsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6). I’m not an expert. But I have spent a few years here scratching at the surface to unearth all kinds of new (to me) experiences that I hope help prepare you for — or entice you to — visit.