visiting wine grower – piemonte – barbera!
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Emanuele Colombo of Azienda Agricola La Giribaldina is visiting all Moore Brothers Wine Company locations on this coming weekend (see the events / tastings calendar to the right of this story for details). We’ll be pouring the latest releases from this wonderful property in Piemonte.
Originally from the northern Italian area of Lombardy, the Colombo family bought the old La Giribaldina farm in 1995. Mariagrazzia, the mother, oversees the winery functions, her husband, Francesco the “business,” and their son Emanuele the vineyards. The family has been restoring old, prime vineyard sites in the Valsarmassa Nature Reserve in the commune of Calamandrana, near Asti. The most recent plantings took place in 2003.
Currently the family farms 21 acres, and produce about 4,500 cases of artisan Barbera.
We hope you can come out to meet Emanuele who is looking forward to meeting and thanking you for your support of artisan wine…and so are we!
Greg and David Moore