Gattinara
- Minimum aging
- 35 months from 1 November of the harvest year, including 24 months in wood.
From wine exports to an experimental cellar
Gattinara’s wine culture connects its hills with European courts and a nineteenth-century school of winemaking.
Behind Gattinara, vineyards follow a hollow in the hills of Alto Piemonte, at the foot of Monte Rosa. Local wine was being exported by 1378. In 1525, Mercurino di Gattinara sent barrels of it as gifts to European courts.
In 1872, the government established the Regia Stazione Enologica Sperimentale in Gattinara. It brought together a winemaking school, vineyards, an experimental cellar and a weather station. Alongside the older trade in wine, the town now had a place devoted to teaching and experimentation.
