Ezio Cerruti has six hectares of vineyards around his house in the village of Castiglione Tinella, about halfway between Asti and Langhe. He basically works with just one grape, Moscato, and likes to show it off in every guise.
His bushes are up to seventy-five years old and are planted on steep limestone slopes at around four hundred metres above sea level. This gives his Moscato a fresh acidity. Unusually for the area, it has been farmed organically from the start, and the trees and wildflowers between the rows bring much needed biodiversity to an area where conventional farming and monoculture are the norm.
