Francedo Azienda Agricola

Francedo is the young one: siblings Edoardo and Francesca turned their father's plans into a small cellar on the Costigliole d'Asti hills, in the heart of Barbera country, and put their own faces on the labels. Few bottles, made by hand — Edoardo trained as a sommelier and pours them himself, seated outside with the vineyards dropping away below.

Book a vineyard tasting through francedo.it and he'll walk you through the wines with the story behind each; it runs in English as well as Italian. If you'd rather stay the night, there's the StarsBox — a wooden cabin among the rows with a roof that slides open over the bed, aperitivo brought to the door and breakfast the next morning. A clean sweep of five-star Google reviews, and 4.0 across fifty-odd Vivino ratings.