Roero Wine Tour 1

The cru where the Arneis wine was born

Mountain bike and hiking tours through the geographical indications of the Roero and Roero Arneis DOCG wines – also called “cru” – among the historical vineyards and wineries associated to the Roero Producers’ Consortium. Four easy ring paths and a huge itinerary divided in different stops to explore the wine hills located on the left side of the Tanaro river, in the north part of the city of Alba by walking, mountain bike or e-bike. A wine heritage that fits in a landscape which is rich in biodiversity, among historical villages, castles and rural ciabot.

It is an itinerary that winds entirely through the council of Canale and crosses a lot of its most famous cru, among which there is the Renesio cru, such as an ancient toponym from which the folksy term “Arneis” was originated, that then meant to indicate the Arneis DOCG’s vineyards and wine.

 Going up from the residential area of Canale and from its medieval civic tower towards the Cappuccini’s convent, walkers come across the Renesio cru, which is the cradle of the Roero Arneis and to which are related its own declinations: Renesio Montorone, Renesio Valbellina and Renesio Incisa. Following this path, walkers get to the Granmadre, which has its homonymous rural chapel, to then enter the Loreto cru, next to the small village called “Madonna di Loreto”, which consists of a bunch of houses that are overlooked by the homonymous church built at the end of the fifteenth century. Once here, they go through the Curiano and Mompellini crus, to then come down through the Mompissano , Oesio and San Vittore crus, on which the homonymous parish church rises, the last remain of the original village of Canale.