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Ready for a crash course in Piedmont Wines? 

Recently we’ve been acquainting ourselves with Northern Italy’s captivating wine region of Piedmont. With its rich foods and powerful wines, Piedmont has long been a darling of the wine world. But, its been only in recent times that the land of Nebbiolo, hazelnuts, and the decadent Alba White Truffle started receiving mainstream attention. Since more every day winelovers are tasting the wines of the region we thought we’d put together a primer on Piedmont wines. From Arneis to Dolcetto, Barbera to Nebbiolo, these are wines worth exploring. 

More and more travellers are looking to explore a region based around their passion of wine. Globally, wine tourism (also know as enotourism, oenotourism, or vinitourism), has had the wind in its sails for many years now, and interest in this new type of travel experience continues to rapidly grow.

Lazenne is heading to the Milan Expo 2015 in June. Find us at the Italian Makers Village to taste some wine, learn more about wine travel, and to enter to win your own wine travel luggage filled with Piedmont wines.

Although we have heard so much about it, the Loire Valley is a region in France, that we personally have not yet had a chance to explore. As a result, we've asked regional experts Bleu Vins, a specialist wine tour operator based in the Loire Valley to give us 5 enticing reasons to visit the region. So without further ado here is their list: