Winery La Meridiana
Piemonte
The Tenuta La Meridiana of the Bianco Family is situated a few miles south of Asti,in the hills of Monferrato, a region that is the shrine of winemaking in Piedmont. Its vineyards are in a particularly favourable position for the production of Barbera.
The landscape of this region also in the gorgeous colours of the harvest season, when everything is soaking in gold, seems to give the stranger a hint, the idea of fascinating stories to tell in the winter evenings in front of the fire and with a glass of wine in the hands.
There are plenty of narrations witnessing the love of these farmers for their land and for the wine.All seems similar but every farm and every winery has a peculiar story to tell.Among them the story of the Bianco Family at Tenuta La Meridiana has a special enchantment. While most small vinegrowers started producing their own wines a few years ago, the Bianco Family has produced wines from generations. Some documents prove that their wines, already of very high quality,were sold in the big cities in 19th century.
The evolution of winemaking,which lea to promote Barbera as a quality wine,brought to choose to refine some lots of Barbera in small barriques of valuable French oak "allier".
This choice,for which the Biancos were the pioneers,gave outstandingly good results and made of the traditional Barbera a wine for connoisseurs.As a matter of fact the result of the assembly of tradition and new French technique is a wine that has not lost its characters of simple wine, but the characters of which have been refined and smoothed to underline also its delicate tones without altering its peculiar aroma. Every glass of Barbera frorm Tenuta la Meridiana offers a unique experience resulting from the constant research of refined aromas.In this case wine is not a simple juice but concentrates in every sip tradition and love, innovation and respect for its ancient origins.
The production of Tenuta la Meridiana is focussed on Barbera both traditional method and Barrique,the range of wines is enriched with Cortese, Grignolino, Dolcetto, a white “Delizia e Collina ”, obtained from Chardonnay, Favorita and Cortese, and last but not least the new “Rivaia ”, noble assembly of Nebbiolo and Barbera. In the story of the Bianco Family and in its range of wines there is also a Malaga wine, the only one produced in Italy.
The vines, arrived hazardously in Piedmont enturies ago and preserved with grafts for enerations and generations, have maintained the same features of the original vines and therefore of the Spanish wine.But the origin of the “vigneto del Malaga ”, of which the family came into ossession after II World War,is too fascinating a narration to tell in a few lines .....
