Why this ride
125 km from Barbaresco to Barbaresco, about 2 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Canelli and Asti Spumante, Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe and back through Canelli and Asti Spumante. Rolling hill country.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hills of Barbaresco and Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 125 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hills of Barbaresco
Barbaresco is a hill, a village, a tower and a wine, and in the Langhe those things are hard to separate. The village sits on a ridge above the Tanaro river a few kilometres northeast of Alba, its medieval brick tower standing over rows of vines that roll off in every direction like a green sea frozen mid-swell. Together with the neighbouring Barolo country and the Roero and Monferrato, these hills form the vineyard landscape of Piedmont listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Hills of Barbaresco write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hills of Barbaresco is where the day begins. Next is Canelli and Asti Spumante.
2. Canelli and Asti Spumante
Under the streets of Canelli runs a second town, made of brick tunnels and vaulted galleries cut into the hillside, where for well over a century sparkling wine has rested in the cool and the dark. The locals call them the underground cathedrals, and they are the reason this small Piedmontese town is part of the UNESCO listing of the vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato. Canelli was one of the places where Italian sparkling wine was pioneered in the nineteenth century, using the local Moscato grape, and the town's big wine houses still welcome visitors into their cellars by appointment.
Read the complete Canelli and Asti Spumante write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Canelli and Asti Spumante comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe.
3. Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe
Barolo the village has a few hundred inhabitants and a castle; Barolo the wine has a worldwide reputation built on the Nebbiolo grape and on the peculiar soils and slopes of these hills south of Alba. Around the village, the Langhe rise in steep ridges striped with vineyards, each hill crowned with a village, a castle or a church tower: La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Serralunga, Castiglione Falletto, Novello. In 2014 UNESCO listed the vineyard landscapes of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato for the way centuries of winemaking have shaped every slope, every row, every cellar.
Read the complete Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe. Next is back through Canelli and Asti Spumante.
4. back through Canelli and Asti Spumante
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Canelli and Asti Spumante write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Canelli and Asti Spumante, late in the day. Next is Hills of Barbaresco.
5. Hills of Barbaresco
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hills of Barbaresco write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hills of Barbaresco. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hills of Barbaresco to Canelli and Asti Spumante
Hills of Barbaresco → Canelli and Asti Spumante is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Canelli and Asti Spumante to Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe
Canelli and Asti Spumante → Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe to back through Canelli and Asti Spumante
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roe → back through Canelli and Asti Spumante is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Canelli and Asti Spumante to Hills of Barbaresco
back through Canelli and Asti Spumante → Hills of Barbaresco is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.