Winery Info/Brand
The Elio Grasso Estate, located in the municipality of Monforte d’Alba, has 42 hectares of land of which 24 are forests and meadows that surround the 18 hectares of vineyards, within the World Heritage site.
They believe to be acknowledged first as grape farmers, and then as wine producers, is the best way to honour, and continue the labours of, those who have faced before us the challenges that working with nature and her products, like wine, entails. This, and a desire to be true to themselves, prompts them propose, without presumption, the convictions and conduct shared by all Langhe farming families, characteristics worth preserving and which they believe make the difference.
They believe to be acknowledged first as grape farmers, and then as wine producers, is the best way to honour, and continue the labours of, those who have faced before us the challenges that working with nature and her products, like wine, entails. This, and a desire to be true to themselves, prompts them propose, without presumption, the convictions and conduct shared by all Langhe farming families, characteristics worth preserving and which they believe make the difference.
Region Info/Origin
Monforte d'Alba is a commune in the Province of Cuneo, in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 kilometres to the southeast of Turin and about 40 kilometres to the northeast of Cuneo. Monforte d'Alba borders the following municipalities: Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Dogliani, Monchiero, Novello, Roddino and Serralunga d'Alba. Monforte d'Alba is part of the zone of the noble Barolo wine production area.
