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Orsolani
Orsolani has been in the same family in San Giorgio Canavese, in the Canavese hills north of Turin, since 1894, when Giovanni Orsolani and his wife Domenica came back from America and opened an inn, the Locanda Aurora, while Giovanni worked the vines and cellar. Four generations later the family works only in wine, producing around 150,000 bottles a year, nine in ten of them Erbaluce, the grape they call their true love. The estate belongs to the Grandi Cru d'Italia committee. Vineyards are farmed mostly by hand with organic fertilisers and low impact treatments, and the cellar runs on its own photovoltaic power. Orsolani makes a dry Erbaluce di Caluso, two metodo classico Erbaluce spumante cuvees (sparkling Erbaluce was born in this cellar in 1968), a passito and a Canavese Barbera. The Canavese hills are glacial moraines, their sand and stone soils rich in minerals, and Erbaluce di Caluso itself gained protected status in 2009.
At a glance
- Region
- Canavese, Piemonte, Italy
- Address
- Via Michele Chiesa 12, 10090 San Giorgio Canavese (TO)
- Tours
- Available
- Tastings
- Available
- Wines listed
- 6
- Website
- https://www.orsolani.it/
Visits & tastings
Visits and tastings at Orsolani are by appointment, arranged directly with the family, Tuesday to Saturday.
Tastings
- Estate tasting · by appointment
Tours
- Cellar visit · by appointment
Good to know
- Booking by phone, email or WhatsApp message
- Cantina open for sales Mon to Fri 9:00 to 12:00 and 15:00 to 18:00, Sat 9:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 18:00
- Closed Sundays and holidays
Contact
- +39 0124 32386
- info@orsolani.it
- Via Michele Chiesa 12, 10090 San Giorgio Canavese (TO)
Wines from Orsolani
- Acini Sparsi: Canavese DOC Barbera, Barbera, Red. Acini Sparsi is Orsolani's Canavese Barbera DOC red.
- Cuvée 1968: Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG, Erbaluce, Sparkling. Cuvée 1968 is Orsolani's black-label Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG spumante brut metodo classico, named for the year the estate began sparkling Erbaluce.
- Cuvée Tradizione: Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG, Erbaluce 100%, Sparkling. Cuvée Tradizione is Orsolani's metodo classico Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG spumante, extra brut in dosage, in the style the estate pioneered when it first sparkled Erbaluce in 1968.
- La Rustìa: Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG, Erbaluce 100%, White. La Rustìa is Orsolani's dry Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG, a still white made from 100% Erbaluce grapes with rigorous selection and close attention through every stage of cellar work.
- Sulè: Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG, Erbaluce 100%, Sweet. Sulè is Orsolani's Erbaluce di Caluso Passito DOCG, made from Erbaluce grapes dried by appassimento in a tradition the estate traces back to Roman times.
- Vintàge: Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG, Erbaluce, White. Vintàge is Orsolani's aged (bianco riposato) Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG white wine.