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At the beginning of the company there is a man, Antonio Costa, with a white mustache and the name of the biblical Job, which the company Teo Costa was as the spark for the bonfire on the hill. The nickname has been attributed to the biblical great tenacity and patience he had. The Farm Costa towards the end of 1800 has become a reality concrete and exciting. Today, the company has assets of 50 hectares of vineyards with about 230,000 screws fruit.
Today the Cru carefully selected and implanted are located both in Roero and Langa: Castellinaldo and Castagnito on the left side of the Tanaro river and Treiso and Novello on the right. Dad Antonio and mom Mariuccia dealing with the agricultural side, the brothers Marco and Roberto Theobald of the part related to winemaking, bottling and marketing. Nicoletta Marcellio Costa, wife of Roberto, instead following tastings in the company. Ferruccio Aliberti, on the other hand deals with the marketing. Of course the family staff is not enough so we are fortunate to have good people who help and support us. Isabella, Viviana and Manuel Antonio on the other hand, represent the future.
Iold inhabitants of Castellinaldo say that “the mother of Barbera vines had always lived in the site of San Michele (Sanmicè in our dialect) since in the beginning of time”. Perhaps our winery has been a little overconfident but long ago we decided to invest a lot in this very place at Castellinaldo and in its vocation for Barbera.Sometimes we seem to...
Although for decades wine-makers in Piemonte have somehow “rested on their laurels” and Barolo and Barbaresco have slowly suffered a loss in popularity, Barolo remains - being fully acknowledged today as - one of the greatest wines in the world, rich in tradition and history, incomparable in character. The growing area is strictly limited by the D.O.C.G....
“Rocca delle Vergini” (The Virgin’s Rock) is a hill with very peculiar rock formations which have long intrigued people’s imagination. By the word “Arneis”, the ancient Roero-farmers meant a “funny guy, introvert and very difficult to get on with”; similarly difficult to understand was the cultivation of a white grape variety in Piemonte, a region famous...
This is the first red grape variety to be harvested in Piemonte and its fruits are pleasantly sweet. In our “wine-tasting” times, our “Trifulot” is enjoyed as a “drinking” wine: the Dolcetto variety has always been considered an enjoyable drinking wine, perfect for Bacchus’ friends who like a pleasant, light and fruity wine with a clean finish. The name...
Some parts of the Roero area prove particularly suited for the production of rare white wines. After the extraordinary renaissance of the Arneis varietal over the last twenty years, another very special variety is now in the spotlight: the Favorita variety. It is a rare and vigorous grape type, composed of an excellent balance between acidity and an...
This is certainly the noblest red grape variety in Piemonte, the region itself rightly deserving its reputation as the greatest red wine area in Italy. Growing Nebbiolo is no easy task, however requiring as it does a great deal of skill and highly qualified work to grow this very special wine. It is the first variety to blossom in spring and the last to...
The Roero district is a small area on the left bank of the Tanaro river, half-way between Alba and Asti in southern Piemonte, with a mostly hilly, sandy or limestone ground. Thanks to the vintage of 1989 the Roero Arneis’ traditional habitat has achieved the status of D.O.C. The hills on which it is planted are extremely steep and most vineyard work must...
Despite its short history, this wine is gaining an interesting popularity, appealing to more and more consumers and experts. The wine and the producing area bear the same name and the area borders with the famous Barbaresco wine region to the East. The grape variety Nebbiolo Lampia, the characteristics of the soil, the elevation and the extraordinary...