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Report from – Piedmont, Italy – Day 4 (Barbaresco Day) … September 30, 2008

 

It all started at the Charton-Hobbs tasting and ended with me nursing a stuffed nose for two-plus weeks; but I would have to say it was well worth it …

We are picked up by bus and taken to Barbaresco for a tour of this popular area and to taste some of its wines.  We meet in a de-sanctified church, which was turned into a wine shop and tourist information center back in 1986 – this could only happen in Italy where wine is a religion … turns out the town had two churches and that's one too many for a town this size. 

Points of interest about Barbaresco … (Read more)

 

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