milk. Take home a hearty block
of bra duro, a nutty, herby hard
cheese, or the high-pasture, one-
year-aged version of castelmagno,
a dense, grainy blue that’s been
made here since the 13th century.
THEY EVEN HAVE A
MICROBREWERY
If all that superior food and fine
wine is starting to make you feel
a bit puffily bourgeois and you’re
craving more plebeian pleasures,
Birrificio CitaBiunda in the village
of Neive (1 Via Moniprandi) is a
hipster-ish corner of Piedmont. In a
former schoolhouse, they knock out
excellent 36-hour-proved sourdough
pizzas and their own beers in
adventurous styles, from Belgian to
British (they’ve even adopted the
dubious British custom of pun
names with Sensu Ale – geddit?!).
There’s ‘birramisu’ for pudding too.
In warm weather the beer garden is
a delight, and the concept has proved
so successful they’ve opened a
second branch in Alba, serving
burgers (1 Via Biglino). →
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The Ceretto
winery with
its Alpine
backdrop; the
Church Of
Santa Chiara,
Bra; hunting
for truffles;
snail risotto at
Da Francesco;
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