Pidrin winery is located in North Piedmont, in the province of
Novara, in the area known as “Colline Novaresi”, a land with a long
history and tradition in the production of excellent wines. The first
cooperative cellar in Italy was founded in Oleggio (15 Km from us) back
in 1891.
The 4 provinces of Novara, Vercelli, Biella and Verbano-Cusio-
Ossola have got a common father called Monte Rosa (the second highest
mountain in Europe); the Alps are geologically responsible for the great
mineral richness of these soils that can produce very good wines,
though with different characteristics at a few kilometres one from the
other.
This particular microclimate (good temperature ranges between day
and night, fresh summer breeze coming down from the mountains and
continental winters) makes the Nebbiolo grapes thrive, so that those
wines are elegant, fine and long lasting.
The Pidrin vineyards are located
in Borgomanero in an area called “Talunit”; the soil of these hills have a
fluvial-glacial origin, with grit and pebbles which originally came rolling
down the Alps.
The small church of Saint Alessandro, rebuilt in 1933, dominates
the Talunit valley. Legend has it that if the bells ring when a storm is
coming, their sound will preserve the vineyards from damage; that’s
why, when the sky is getting dark and threatening, Pedrin runs to the
church and starts to ring “his” bells with all his strength and …..the sky
clears up.
«Suggestion? Luck? Legend? We like to think that something magic
happens on our hills and with the sound of those bells. All this is a part
of us, deeply.»
