Walter's Alto Piemontese secret

Every time Piemonte is mentioned, attention is automatically drawn to Barolo and Barbaresco. This large collection of tasting notes dedicated to Piemonte might reinforce this tendency since it makes few exceptions apart from the wines from the very north of Piemonte, referred to locally as ‘Alto Piemonte’, a source of increasingly fine and complex Nebbiolo. The fact that there are so few Alto Piemonte tasting notes among the reviews below is evidence of the fact that while once Alto Piemonte was more famous and revered and much larger than both Barolo and Barbaresco, phylloxera and two World Wars have decimated...