Full Day excursion to Alba & Asti
Your private driver will take you on a full-day tour of the Langhe region. Explore Alba, known for its white truffles, chocolate, and wine, with tastings of local delicacies. Then, visit Asti, famous for its sparkling Asti Spumante wine. Your driver will return you to your hotel afterward.
Please meet your driver in the hotel lobby at 9:00 a.m. to begin your full-day excursion.
A once-powerful city-state whose center sported more than 100 towers, Alba is considered the capital of the Langhe and has big-city confidence and energy while retaining all the grace and warmth of a small rural town. Alba’s considerable gastronomic reputation comes courtesy of its white truffles, dark chocolate, and wine. Its annual autumn truffle fair draws huge crowds and the odd truffle-mad celebrity.
During the tour, you will also have hazelnuts tastings along with caffè and Cuneese chocolate tastings. Proceed to the next stop, just 30km apart, Asti and Alba were fierce rivals in medieval times, when they faced off against each other as feisty, independent strongholds ruled over by feuding royal families. These days the two towns maintain a friendly rivalry – stately but workaday Asti sniffs at Alba’s burgeoning glamour – but are united by viticulture. Asti is famed for sparkling white Asti Spumante wine made from white muscat grapes, though it is actually made in Canelli and other nearby areas.
In the end, you will be driven back to your hotel.
(8 hours)
