"Agliano, a distinguished land, located on a delightful fruit-bearing hill between Asti and Nizza della Paglia, whose wines of every kind and every color are still in great esteem today."
[ V. Malacarne 1786 ]
This old quotation about Agliano Terme is still as valid today as it was then. The Agliano region, in addition to being nestled amidst magnificent picturesque hills, boasts a wide geo-pedological variation in its terrain.
"Who understands also loves, notices, sees - The greater knowledge is indissolubly linked to love."
[ Paracelso ]
As cold, emotionless technological science tends more and more to disregard the human soul, my opinion is that a little healthy irrationality is indispensable. I believe in regaining possession of those faculties we are irretrievably losing.
"Our task is to learn how to see the vegetable being so that each plant appears as an organ within the universal organism that is the vegetable world. We must be able to look at each plant as part of the entire being."
[ Rudolf Steiner ]
Man and Nature are part of a harmonious world as manifestations of a single eternal and infinite Being. Man should go along with Nature and cooperate with it, rather than trying vain less to dominate it.
"The Wine Cellar is a supernatural place where the hand of the man and the Nature itself have made a pact to enhance the Wine."
[ Anonymous ]
“In the beginning there was the Chaos”, writes Hesiod, and the harvest is the beginning of a certain kind of chaos, with all the magic and turbulence of fermentation.
The expression of chalk, showing a strong minerality and precision: the wisdom of an almost century-old vineyard. That is, Barbera d’Antan. - Of the past -
Nebbiolo coming from massal selection and growing on Sant’Agata Fossili Marl soil: an elegant and never overrated wine of distinction with a great personality.
The warm balance of the marl creates harmony between structure and acid vibration in the wine. Gradale is a classic expression of the union between the variety of the grape and the soil.
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