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The history of the Cieck winery

We are in San Giorgio Canavese, in Piedmont, between Turin and Ivrea. We cultivate 13 hectares of vineyards. Almost all of it is Erbaluce, an ancient and native white grape of the Canavese area. The rest are always native vines: Nebbiolo, Barbera, Neretto, Freisa. The peculiarity of this area are the pergola vineyards, that is a training system that creates large pergolas in the vineyard. The grapes are harvested by collecting the bunches at the top. We are three: Domenico Caretto is the agronomist and takes care of the vineyards and the cellar; Lia Falconieri takes care of the administration, the commercial part and the communication; Remo Falconieri, the founder, "the Archimede of bubbles" as Carlin Petrini called him. At 80 and older every day at 8 in the morning he is the first to arrive in the cellar.
The company was founded in 1985 a few kilometers from San Giorgio, in Aglié. At first it was a game. It wanted to be a small sparkling wine house. Remo, son of farmers and designer of typewriters at Olivetti, takes a trip to France to learn how to make sparkling wine. In 1985, he began with a few hectares of vineyards and the first vinification: just over 2500 bottles of Erbaluce Metodo Classico.
It entered the market in 1987. It was the debut of the Cieck company which bears the name of the old farmhouse.
Now we have moved to Castagnola in San Giorgio Canavese.
Each of our vineyards has a name, a soul, a story. The oldest is the Misobolo which today is the name of one of our Erbaluce. Here we still have a grapevine that is almost a century old.
It was planted before the phylloxera attack in the early 900s. We keep it carefully. Misobolo is a historical cadastral name of the town: today there is a sanctuary and Teresa Belloch, opera singer, muse of Giocchino Rossini is buried. Here Pietro Falconieri, Lia's great-great-grandfather, took grapes at the end of the 800th century.
Fascinated by the Martinotti method, as soon as he was born, he too tried to do it with a very robust barrel.
It was the "vin sfursà" which was kept to ferment spontaneously in the barrel until Easter week when it was time to remove it from the barrel and drink it. Then there are the Brajassa della Mariuccia vineyard, Domenico's aunt; the Castagnola vineyard; the Cascinetto vineyard; the Biaulej vineyard (of the Birches). The Freisa vineyards are owned by Carlin, Domenico's father. We also continue to grow two small rows of grandfather Giacomo's Pinot Grigio for love.
Our land originated from the Balteo glacier that dragged a land rich in numerous minerals from the Aosta Valley. Thus originated the morainic amphitheater of Ivrea, divided in half by a river: the Dora Baltea. The varieties of minerals are found in the wine produced in these lands and it is also the peculiarity of our wines.
We are registered with Fivi, the Italian Federation of independent winemakers, which recognizes as value the companies that have a wine production chain: the grapes that start from the vineyard and arrive in the bottle.

The tasting offered includes the three historical versions of the Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG: still wine, classic method sparkling wine and passito, plus a surprise red wine from Canavese. As an accompaniment we offer water and breadsticks.

Type of tasting

Tasting of 4 wines, accompanied by water and breadstick

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  • Monday Open
  • Tuesday Open
  • Wednesday Open
  • Thursday Open
  • Friday Open
  • Saturday 10: 00 am - 12: 00 pm
  • Sunday 10: 00 am - 12: 00 pm

All time intervals are in local time

You are entitled to a free tasting only if you have booked in an accommodation facility from the Visit Canavese&Lanzo portal. Reservations are required for this free tasting.

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