Address: Strada Provinciale Alba/Barolo Località San Cassiano 34 12051 Alba (Cn) Italy
Phone: +39.0173.282582
Website:  www.ceretto.com
Ceretto welcomes wine lovers daily to its wineries. With an advanced reservation. it is possible to participate in a guided tour (including tasting) at the Monsordo - Bernardina Estate in Alba at 10.00 a.m. or 3.00 p.m., or in one of our more personalized tour and tasting options.  We offer the opportunity to enhance your visit to the winery with a lunch at one of our partner restaurants, La Piola or Piazza Duomo, (Piazza Risorgimento 4, Alba) with a menu specifically designed to compliment the wines of the territory.

In addition to several tour and tasting options, the Cerettos also offer a “Wine & art” tour that incudes a focus on art and the hills of the Barolo region. This includes a tour of the Monsordo Estate, a visit to the Barolo Chapel, La Morra and a tasting of 3 wines. Time: 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The Langhe like the old West: mysterious, sun-blessed moorland, and hills which are still wild and untamable despite the Cartesian logic of their division into rows of vines. An El Dorado. A frontier land with its own gold rushes, pioneers, family sagas, gambles that paid off and hard-earned fortunes, and blood ties that develop into deep roots. The history of the Ceretto brand has all of this: three generations whose mission for more than seventy years has been excellence in wine, ambassador of Piedmont and Italy throughout the world. It was Riccardo, the founder, who decided to harness the creative energy of a unique region by planting the first vineyards and setting up the original nucleus of the family firm in Alba.

The Ceretto Family, three generations:
The Langhe like the old West: mysterious, sun-blessed moorland, and hills which are still wild and untamable despite the Cartesian logic of their division into rows of vines. An El Dorado. A frontier land with its own gold rushes, pioneers, family sagas, gambles that paid off and hard-earned fortunes, and blood ties that develop into deep roots.

The history of the Ceretto brand has all of this: three generations whose mission for more than seventy years has been excellence in wine, ambassador of Piedmont and Italy throughout the world. It was Riccardo, the founder, who decided to harness the creative energy of a unique region by planting the first vineyards and setting up the original nucleus of the family firm in Alba.

In little more than thirty years, the Ceretto brothers created a network of small independent estates in the Langhe and Roero, purchasing over 120 hectares (300 acres) of land to form a constellation of cellars producing outstanding labels such as the Bricco Rocche Barolos, the Bricco Asili Barbarescos, Blangé Arneis, Moscato from Vignaioli di Santo Stefano, Dolcetto, Barbera, Langhe Monsordo and grappas.

While precision and clarity may be the common threads running through their entrepreneurial strategy, flair and imagination are the distinguishing features of the company’s collateral projects: wineries that bear the stamp of famous designers and architects, labels that are works of graphic art, and book prizes and musical events, because wine is above-all culture.

THE CHAPEL
When Ceretto purchased 6 hectares of vineyard in 1976 in Brunate, one of Barolo’s three most important and best-known crus, they also acquired a small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Grace. Built in 1914 as a shelter for people working in the surrounding vineyards in the event of heavy rain or hailstorms, the chapel had never been consecrated. With the passing of time, the chapel gradually fell into a state of disrepair due to lack of use. The idea to renovate the building was sparked off by an encounter with the English artist, David Tremlett, a keen wine enthusiast who had come to the Langhe in 1997 to set up an art exhibition in Barolo Castle. The artist was immediately taken by the idea, and suggested involving his American friend, Sol LeWitt, in the project. (photo above)