100% Dolcetto

Food pairings: an everyday table wine, Italian-style pasta, roast poultry, a mid-day snack of cheese and cold meat

Appellation: Dolcetto d’Alba DOC (Piedmont, Italy)

Planting of vineyards: 1961

Type of soil: calcareous clay of medium consistency

Position: facing east, south-west, west

Harvest: towards mid-September

The Green Experience

Cà del Baio winery respects the Green Experience discipline in the exercise of sustainable and eco-friendly viticulture.

The Green Experience was born in the hills of Langhe, in the UNESCO World Heritage site. It is a method to preserve the biodiversity and natural resources of the soil, to protect the value of Piedmontese production methods, and to safeguard the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato viticultural environment.

Green Experience vintners care for their vineyards through innovative and eco-friendly methods such as the diffusion of pollinating insects,planting of herbaceous and floral essences, and the strategic positioning of birds nests.

The 10 rules Green Experience vintners follow:

1.  Eco-friendly and sustainable viticulture and production
2. Preservation of biodiversity and the natural environment
3. Aesthetic protection of the natural landscape and the human interaction with it
4. Respect for the soil through agronomic solutions
5. Elimination of chemical weeding in the vineyards
6. Sowing of herbal and floral plants in the vineyards
7. Disseminations of useful pollinating insects
8. Strategic placement of bird nests to aid incultivation
9. Respect and honesty towards consumers
10. Transparency of controls and external certification