Cellar tasting at Antiche Cantine Brema

The Brema family has worked these slopes between Nizza, Mombaruzzo and Fontanile for more than two hundred years, and it's the tasting people tend to remember — visitors still name the Volpettona they drank here. Ask for the two crus: Bricco della Volpettona and Bricconizza, Barbera d'Asti Superiore aged in barrique, with a Gavi and a little Brachetto alongside. There's no slick booking page yet, so ring first on +39 0141 74019 — the cellar keeps shop hours through the week and opens Sunday mornings, but someone's often out among the vines. Bring your Italian; this is a small working house, not a visitor centre.

Run by Antiche Cantine Brema