Moving away a couple of days from Cote d'Azur to the "foggy" hills Piemonte. We stayed again at the lovely small hotel of Corte Gondina in La Morra. Combining summer, wine and food, we basically had two days with lots of sun, food and drinks.
The first night we visited l'Osteria del Vignaiolo in a small place in La Morra called St.Maria. If the hotel had not recommended it we would not have found it. And what a lovely place with fantastic food at very reasonable prices. We had a nice botttle of Barbera d'Alba from the very long wine list. Dark dark purple colour, long juicy taste with no tannins, works with nearly all sorts of food. A truly great experience with food at half the cost of Cote d'Azur and twice as good.......
The show went on the next day with lunch in a tiny 5 table restaurant (name below) in Barolo across from the local post office. The owner had not a real menu, he just asked us what we fancied and then it came to the table little by little. Yum yum.
In the evening we booked a table at Bovio hanging off the hillside of La Morra with a fantastic view over the vineyards towards Barlo and Serralunga. Ahh, and the wine list was thicker than a baguette. Incredible they must have about 200-300 differnt Barolos and Barberarescos for example. Shocking. Food was a bit more pricey (still lower than Cote d'Azur) and stunningly good. We ended up with a Barbaresco 2004 with lovely flavours of wet rowing boat, dried fruit and a long velvety taste. A great experience and we will for sure come again.....soon.
The first night we visited l'Osteria del Vignaiolo in a small place in La Morra called St.Maria. If the hotel had not recommended it we would not have found it. And what a lovely place with fantastic food at very reasonable prices. We had a nice botttle of Barbera d'Alba from the very long wine list. Dark dark purple colour, long juicy taste with no tannins, works with nearly all sorts of food. A truly great experience with food at half the cost of Cote d'Azur and twice as good.......
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