CA MOMPLIN I - FARMHOUSE IN ROERO

Description from the owner

Ca' Momplin rents fully furnished apartments and studios in Roero and Alta Langa: 10 locations for a total of 20 apartments, most of which sitting on hilltops and featuring a breathtaking view of the Western Alps and the Monviso, their highest peak. Some come with a heated swimming pool. All are sitting right in the middle of our most renowned vineyards: Barolo, Barbaresco, and Roero Arneis. Only one, La Corte di Langa, at 740 meters above sea level, is surrounded by our also very renowned hazelnut threes. Ca Momplin I, pictured here, is a 90 m2 apartment: it sits on a hilltop facing Canale di Alba. From the terrace you enjoy the breathtaki...ng view of the vineyards leading to Canale, and of the MonViso. The apartment is artfully decorated and features antique furniture; on the first floor the large kitchen is fully equipped and the living room hosts a fireplace: ideal for warmer evenings from the middle of October, and, sometimes, in April and early May. On the second floor there is the bathroom and the master bedroom. An additional bed comes from unfolding the queen size sofa on the living room. From Ca Momplin you can trek, bike, horseback, hunt for truffle or pick mushrooms in season, or play tennis, or swim in the pool of a private tennis club, golf, wine tasting, all for free or for a few bucks. You also are 10 Km from Alba, 18 from Asti, 45 from Torino, the city which was the host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, 1 hr away from the sea shores of Liguria or some of the highest peaks of the Alps. But keep in mind that most people come here to enjoy our wines and gourmet cuisine: everything else is done only to lose weight.Read more

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Location Type Rural

Rental fees

Additional notes from owner

Rates are for two adults per week. Add € 100/week for each additional person. Reductions apply for children. Please get in touch with Claudia ((email: hidden)) for details and quotes. Prices do not include activities organized by Franco and Claudia such as truffle and mushroom hunting, cooking classes, and pool at the local tennis club. Some activities are organized free of charge (wine tasting).

What Past Guests Are Saying

• Reisner
  Vancouver, BC Canada

  Beyond expectations

  Left on 06/24/2010 for a stay in September 2009
  
  

  For quite a while I had been planning to visit Turin and Piemonte with my children and grandchildren, where my children had been born and lived through their early years.
  
  Ca' Momplin came on our radar, and once I received e-mails from Franco with photos and found the location in my memory, we all went there for over four weeks in September 2009.It became a magical stay, not only that the location great, (I still have a photo of the valley facing Cisterna on my wall, with two grape leaves tucked in) the premises were comfortable and fun to take turns cooking in, it came with the wonderful guidance of Claudia and Franco. Franco took us mushroom picking in the near Ligure mountains, arranged for us all to visit the Beppi Occelli cheese aging operationin Borgo di Valcasotto, and gave us an intgruging cooking class, making fresh pasta, and especially his bagna caoda, even better than what I remembered from my life in Piemonte. Then it was all crowned by a day picking grapes in a vineyard above the Tanaro valley, then watching the grapes being pressed, fillimng the most container in the cellars, while we drank samples of the earlier wine aging in the casks. This was followed by a farm meal and lots of wine, crowned by the singing of a male quartet of local singers. This for me was an emotional visit to the past, and all much enjoyed. Claudia and Franco are the greatests hosts and I'd go back tomorrow if I could.
  
  Paula Reisner, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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  Response from CLAUDIA & FRANCO - 06/25/2010

  

  CLAUDIA & FRANCO

  Owner

  Thank you Paula .... This is great .. by the way if you go to http://www.corte-di-langa.com/mushroom.html you'll see a picture of your son and me.
  Say Hallo to everybody !!!
  Franco & Claudia

• Marc
  Portland Oregon

  Franco and Claudia treat you as friends

  Left on 06/11/2010 for a stay in May 2010
  
  

  We were tired and jet lagged having just arrived from Portland, Oregon and hungry. Franco and Claudia insisted on preparing us lunch. It was raining outside but inside their home we were warm and feeling very contented. Our new friends treated us to a lunch of perfectly cooked pasta, salad, featuring Franco's own deliciously simple preserved tomato sauce and of course, copious amounts of local wine. After lunch the couple escorted us through Canale d' Alba to our apartment for the week we would spend in Piedmont. Our residence was in a small Frazione just outside Canale. Our very large deck overlooked vineyards, if you are runner you will love this place. You can literally run miles on back roads and never see a car. The apartment was clean, very comfortable with a well supplied kitchen. Tther were two full bathrooms, important when you are travelling with your mom.
  On our first morning in Piedmont we drove over to Franco and Claudia's house. We got into their car and they took us to a friend's vineyard where we had a private tasting, then on to another friend's Salumi business. We returned in the afternoon and again our hosts insisted on making us lunch.Cured meats, salad, homemade bread and yes some great local wine poured from an unmarked 1.5 liter bottle that Franco seemed to have an endless supply of. The next day a visit to an Organic Flour Mill, a Cheese Cave followed by a lunch of the most incredible local cheeses accompanied by a local Pinot Noir. (in honor of our coming from Oregon) Understand, none of this was expected by us. Claudia and Franco just do it because they love where they live and truly want to share it with their guests. We would have never had the experiences we had without their generosity and knowledge of the Piedmont area. One tip, the weather in early May is very unpredicatable so if you can travel a little later in the month or wait until June I would recommend you do so.

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  Response from CLAUDIA & FRANCO - 06/12/2010

  

  CLAUDIA & FRANCO

  Owner

  Thank you Marc !!!