Diano d'Alba

today was the first real hot day. we have had warm summer days before, but today was real hot, and no wind, which seems to be unusual for casario.

We went to the wine area to stock up on some dolcetto, and those little villages are litterally baking in the sun now. it was too hot to do much sightseeing even in serralunga, but what an impressive castle they have. lots of real little villages with either castles or churches dominating the place. and now we realised we are looking a bit differently at the brick work, really admiring the work of those that built these buildings.

Then it was time to go to Diano d'Alba and visit the communal wine cellar. It really is a fantastic place and one of my absolute favourites since we first came to visit this area a few years ago. A man is sitting there and watching all those good dolcettos, barberas, nebbiolos and barolos and tells you.. if you want to taste some wine, go ahead. open whatever you want. hands you an opener, puts up a box with crackers and a box with wine glasses and lets you go ahead. A little sad it is that our italian is not better cause he probably knows everything about all the producers.

we bought some good organic dolcetto and barbero and nebbiolo. obs all todays pics are ripped off the internet.. it was too hazy and we were too lazy