Reserved cellar tasting at Cascina Castlet

Mariuccia Borio built her name on Passum, a Barbera d'Asti pressed from partly dried grapes — rounder, darker, the wine that carried Cascina Castlet well past Piemonte. Book ahead and someone like Alice walks you through the rebuilt cantina on Strada Cascinotto, into the old historic room the regulars single out, and pours the Passum next to Uceline, made from Uvalino, a local grape she pulled back from the edge. The tour runs in fluent English or German, weekday mornings and afternoons, Saturdays only if you've asked first — email visit@cascinacastlet.com. The view over the vineyards does the rest.

Run by Cascina Castlet