Alba
Friday, October 20, 2006
This is the main shopping street in Alba, a pleasant medium–sized city in Piedmont. Cars are not permitted, and people eat al fresco at many restaurants.
A stroll not far down this street brings one to this wine bar. Always crowded, even in the morning, it sells wine made in the area by the glass and provides plates of salame, cheese and breadsticks.
Dinner in Alba consisted of a roasted onion stuffed with fondutta and black truffles; raw porcini salad with robiolla cheese; and gnocchi of potato and chestnut with black truffles.
Alba is a good city to spend a day or two, in order to sample local wines. In October, however, one does not come to Alba for wine, even for Barolo. One comes for the white truffle.
Next—Alba’s truffle market.
