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The passion for vineyards and wine-growing took over me at a young age, and never left me since, infact it has grown with me over the years.
I spent the happiest days of the year at La Berchialla.
In those days, the farmhouse and land were my grandfather Riccardo’s kingdom, where he would abandon his severe role as a magistrate to throw himself heart and soul into looking after the vineyards, and I can assure you that his enthusiasm was quite contagious!
I remember well the affect that the rather austere ambience had on me; the cellar’s unique smell, the machinery, the vats, the wooden barrels, the wine pressing methods and when the wine was transferred from one vat to another…
It was thanks to watching Piero and Matteo, the last two workers to take care of the family vineyards, that I actually began to understand how to make wine and as a result was inspired to follow in their footsteps.
I therefore joined the agricultural faculty at Turin University, specializing in wine-growing and oenology whilst gaining experience working in various cellars in the Langhe and also abroad.
In 2002 I got my degree with a thesis that dealt with “The extraction of phenolic components in relation to different kinds of vinification”.
The research for my thesis I had gathered in Bordeaux, in the region of Medoc, during my first work experience abroad.
From there, I spent long periods of time working as an assistant wine producer in Australia, Oregan, Australia again and New Zealand.
At the same time I also worked in various cellars in the Langhe, making the most of the different harvest periods in the different hemispheres, enabling me to take part in two different harvests a year. I did this for a few years until I felt ready enough to embrace the art of wine making my own way, and plucked up my courage, opening my very own wine cellar.
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