Metodo Classico tasting at La Torre di Viatosto

La Torre di Viatosto is a small organic estate on the Viatosto hill, inside the comune of Asti and below the hill's little Romanesque church. Rosalba set it up with her husband Vittorio Vallarino Gancia, the fourth generation of the Gancia sparkling-wine family, to put vines back on a hill the growing city had taken over. Its Metodo Classico, 'Cuvée Vittorio', is named in his memory. The tasting costs €30 per person and is built around that wine, a rosé Extra Brut made from Nebbiolo. It sits alongside the estate's other three wines: a Nebbiolo rosato, a Monferrato Rosso made from Merlot and 'Clemenza', a white from very ripe Moscato grapes. Book through the form on the estate's website. Groups of nine or more need to arrange it by phone.

Run by La Torre di Viatosto