Turin & Langhe
Piedmont
Gilded cafés and hills that keep time in wine
Baroque arcades and gilded cafés in Turin; an hour south, hills combed with vines and villages that smell of hazelnut and cellar stone. Piedmont doesn't perform for visitors — it simply carries on, and invites you to fall into step.
The rituals
Il bicerin, before the city wakes
Espresso, drinking chocolate and cream, layered in a small glass since 1763. Taken standing, slowly, in a café where the mirrors have watched two centuries pass.
The aperitivo hour
Vermouth was born here. At dusk the bars pour it over ice with a twist of orange, and the day is allowed to end properly.
The long lunch in the Langhe
Tajarin with butter and white truffle, a Nebbiolo poured by the person who made it. Lunch ends when the light says so.
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