Piedmont
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From above, Piedmont looks like a soft checkered quilt draped elegantly over the Alpine arc, its covered reliefs forming soft, striated slopes. We gradually draw our gaze closer and realise that each of the squares is a vineyard and the striations are rows. Each row is made up of vines, leaves, shoots and bunches, in turn formed by grapes, pearls of a treasure trove that will one day become Piedmont wines.
Piedmont is the casket that holds these pearls.
Rightly considered one of the richest wine regions in Italy, it is undoubtedly the most important in terms of numbers, as it boasts 42 DOC and 16 DOCG wines between red and white wines, an Italian acme in the field of oenology. Suffice it to mention the recent establishment of the 'Strada Reale dei vini torinesi' (Royal Road of Turin Wines), a 600-kilometre-long route through the territory of the regional capital that covers much of Canavese, Collina Torinese, Pinerolese and Val di Susa. Spumante was also born in Piedmont, the most famous of which (and not only in Italy) is certainly that of Asti.
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