Food & Wine
A Weekend in the Langhe Wine Country
Rolling hills, world-class Barolo, and truffle hunts — the Langhe is Piedmont at its most seductive.
Marco Ferri•8 min read
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Beyond the famous Cinque Terre, a string of forgotten villages cling to the Ligurian coast — where fishermen mend nets at dawn and grandmothers still make pesto in marble mortars. We spent a month discovering them.
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