TENUTA IL FALCHETTO

The history

The beginnings

The Forno family in the 1600.

The history

The beginnings

The Forno family in the 1600.

1600

The Fornos have a long history in Santo Stefano Belbo, documented as early as the mid-1600’s. Still today, maps of the area show the <<Cascina Forno>>, also known as Il Falchetto Estate.

1940

Coming from a family of winegrowers and wine lovers, Pietro Forno began producing and selling the first bottles of Moscato in 1940.

anni '70

At the beginning of ‘70s Pietro passes the reins of the winery to his sons Natalino and Luigi, who renovated the cellar introducing new machines for a better control of alcoholic fermentations and buying new vineyards. They continued to work with passion and innovation, always respecting the tradition and the territory.

Il Falchetto today

Today the winery is managed by the brothers Giorgio, Fabrizio and Adriano Forno.

The winery

We have six estates, three in the province of Cuneo in Santo Stefano Belbo and Castiglione Tinella and three in the province of Asti in Agliano Terme and Calosso.

We mainly grow Moscato Bianco and Barbera, our vineyards have the privilege of being respectively in the subzone of Canelli Docg and Nizza Docg.

The method

We manage the vineyards manually from pruning to harvest. We pay great attention to the quality of the grapes and to the yield of every single vine: an important balance to obtain wines with a unique personality.

We respect the environment and the health of consumers: we do not use insecticides and herbicides and we follow a sustainable production system.

 

The philosophy

Our goal is to produce high quality wines using innovation and research but always respecting the tradition, in order to obtain wines that are the best expression of the grapes variety and the territory.

The cellar

Visits

Do you want to taste our wines and visit the winery?

Book your experience, we organize tastings and guided tours to discover the local area and our history!

Come to visit us
The cellar

Visits

Do you want to taste our wines and visit the winery?

Book your experience, we organize tastings and guided tours to discover the local area and our history!

Come to visit us

Barrel room

We use oak casks of 30 hL and french barriques of 2,25 hL from different tonnellerie, the choice is the result of years of research aimed to find the right combination that better enhance the characteristics of our wines.

Tasting room

In our tasting room you can breathe our history and taste our wines. It is a place of conviviality and meeting. We are happy to welcome you!

Crutin

From our passion for the new challenges a new project is born.We renovated a so-called “crutin”: a cave dug 20 meters under the soil of the hill. Thanks to it’s particular environmental conditions, our grandparents used it as a natural cellar for fining and preserving the best wines. Now we age here our bottles of Alta Langa Docg, waiting
for the final disgorgement.