La Castella

Just outside the village of Roddino, right across the border with Serralunga d'Alba, lies the small family winery La Castella, tucked away. They own approximately 5 hectares of vineyards in the municipalities of Roddino and Sinio, planted with Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo, and Rossese Bianco. In the nineties, father Silvio Cassino began labeling and marketing his own wines.
His two daughters, Elena and Monica, both graduated from Alba’s famous wine school, and after daughter Monica completed her postgraduate studies in viticulture at the prestigious Geisenheim University in Germany and returned home, a significant boost in quality followed, both in the vineyards and in the cellar.

The family has always been proud to be the guardians of the rare Rossese Bianco grape, a variety with Ligurian roots that is found in the Langhe region in the municipalities of Sinio, Roddino, and Monforte d'Alba. The Nebbiolo comes from a beautiful hamlet in Sinio called Bricco del Gallo, located five hundred meters above sea level and facing southwest. The soil there is similar to that of Serralunga and produces excellent quality Nebbiolo wines. Just toward Serralunga lies the hamlet of “La Castella,” where the winery was founded in the last century and where they own the surrounding vineyards. It is a hamlet with a few houses, inhabited until 2011 by Elena and Monica’s grandfather. History repeats itself; the sisters are currently renovating the hamlet with the aim of living there.