Langhe Vineyards

South of Alba the country goes into long hills, combed in rows of vine and hazelnut, a castle on most of the high points. The name comes from langa, the local word for a long low hill. In the lower hills the Nebbiolo for Barolo and Barbaresco ripens last and slow, picked in the October fog the wine takes its name from. Higher up the hazelnut groves come on. Slow Food was born here, just across the Tanaro. By harvest the rows turn rust and copper, and the valleys hold the morning mist almost to noon. Cesare Pavese came from one of these villages and wrote about them his whole life.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.