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Wine in Neive

to be honest I used ChatGPT to tell me what the interesting and beautiful little towns are in the Piemonte Area of Italy. When I saw the name Barolo I knew I had to come and visit. For any of you who like Italian wine you will know this name. So I located the town of Alba and saw that it was probably an easy commute to these small towns so I could come back to Alba in the evening. Another reason for being an Alba Is indirect. I know that the company Alba in Japan is the low end Watch manufacturing facility of Seiko And that group was a very good customer of mine years ago. So here we go to Alba. neive Is slightly north on a bus that doesn’t run very often but it’s a very short ride, only about 25 minutes. The town is very small but it is very charming, on top of a hill with many wine tasting rooms.

Barbera wine Wine in Neive
The city has a wine producers cooperative where they do wine tasting and provide glasses of wine and some antipasti. You can also buy wines here. Of course they are from this area and members of the cooperative but the selection is pretty amazing. I had a Barbera.
Wine tasting room Wine in Neive
The wine tasting and purchasing room in the cooperative
Hilltop Chapel Wine in Neive
This chapel is at one entrance to the hilltop village
Old painting Bill Smale
A very old painting
Many churches Bill Smale
I was amazed in such a small village there are so many churches
My lunch Bill Smale
The food here was excellent.
Pork shank lunch Bill Smale
I ordered the pork shank. They told me it would take about 20 minutes so I would have to wait and asked if it was OK. Of course it was. I have all of the time in the world.
My restaurant
Proof I was here at my restaurant
Grapevines everywhere
The view of the vineyards from the top. When you come to this area everywhere you look are grape vines
Orthodox Church
This church is extremely ordinate. At first I didn’t understand why there was a decorative wall which you face coming into the church. When I looked around all of the artwork seemed to portray Greek orthodox artwork. I cannot imagine that this is a Roman Catholic church. One thing interesting about the Greek orthodox art is that it tends to be two dimensional rather than what you see in the Roman Catholic churches, a more three-dimensional presentation of images
Amore
You know you were in Italy when the theme is “Amore”
Peach on coconut
This is peach on top of coconut. But something interesting. Fish in Italian is PESCE. Peach in Italian is PESCE. I ordered it according to the standard pronunciation which also means fish. The people behind me were having fun pronouncing it two different ways so I’m not quite sure if the peach pronunciation is an exception to the rules. I guess I have to ask somebody