Day 03 Chiaverano, Italy

We get a very comfortable nights sleep and wake refreshed before going upstairs to their apartment. It is now Day 03 of our adventure! We have coffee, fruits and pastries with Scott and Manuela. It’s raining steadily. We head out anyway and tour the neighboring town of Ivrea and the surrounding areas. This is a very beautiful part of Italy, very lush and green! Scot & Manuela take us to a Grappa Distillery and we tour and taste! Grappa is a liqueur made by fermenting the left over must from making grape wine!

Then we tour around Ivrea for a bit, checking out the town.

We stop for lunch at CellaGrande for a lunch and wine tasting. Erbaluce grapes fermented several ways are featured. Plain fermentation, in oak and on skins, underwater for consistency of temperature and pressure. We choose to do a tasting menu of White and Red wine also. Dessert wine is pictured. Our waiter is Ricardo. Ricardo is very pleasant and knowledgeable.

Made a second wine tasting at Pozzo and taste some more very good wines!

Then we proceeded on to an overlook with park and gardens and took a stroll. Our cameras appreciated that! After which we visited the church above Scott and Manuela’s house. The skies after the morning rains were very photogenic!

Now it’s back to the house to relax for the evening.