Welcome! My name is Elisa and it is my pleasure to receive you at Colombera… We find ourselves in the small village of Vho, 5 kilometers away from Tortona. The 22 hectares of vineyards are almost all gathered near the cellars, they are COLOMBERA’s beating heart. Our passion for the work of the viticulturer and the vineryardist spurs us to constantly look for highest quality grapes. Through the work in the cellar, these grapes will then give their best in our wines. Through tasting you can breathe the scents of Tortona hills and enjoy the flavour of Vho lands. My grandfather Renato reached Cascina Colombera in 1937, after that his own farmstead was destroyed. He decides, together with his father Pietro and his mother Maria, to cultivate these lands and in the ’50s he plants the first vineyards. His son Piercarlo soon warms to his father’s work, assists him in the vineyards but prefers to work in the fields, on tractors and combine harvesters. From the ’70s on, the importance of the farm’s winemaking side grows and my father Piercarlo understands that a turning point was going to be reached. He decides to stop selling the grapes to traders and co-operative wine cellar and starts producing his first wines. During the years his techniques in the cellar grow more refined, thanks to experience and precious advices. He starts selling all the wine he produces directly to private citizens, coming to Cascina Colombera thanks to the word-of-mouth of friends and acquaintances. In 1997 he starts thinking to enlarge the agricultural holding that by now has reached 14 hectares of vineyards, and there is a new project… In 1998 he carries out the first selection of barbera grapes from the oldest vineyard, “Vigna Brusà”, that had been planted by Renato, and, after thorough ageing, there it is the first wine bottle of Colombera …

Piercarlo, Luisa and Lorenzo, that is to say my family and the staff of Colombera agricultural holding are now working… let’s go and meet them!