Costigliole d'Asti
Costigliole d' Asti is a wine-growing village with 5968 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the northern Italian province of Asti, Piedmont, about 15 km south of Asti.
The municipality consists of several districts. The neighboring municipalities Costigliole d' Asti are Agliano, Antignano, Calosso, castagnole delle lance, Castiglione Tinella, Govone, Isola d' Asti, Monte Grosso d' Asti and San Martino Alfieri.
Partnership
Costigliole d' Asti is a partner congregation of the German city of vineyard in Baden-Württemberg.
Specialty
At 1200 hectares of vineyards are cultivated, which makes Costigliole d' Asti to one of the largest wine-growing villages of Italy. The mainly planted grape varieties are Barbera and Moscato. The vineyards are among the DOC regions Piemonte, Barbera del Monferrato, Grignolino d' Asti Moscato d' Asti and. The Muscat grape for the Asti Spumante, a sweet DOCG sparkling wine with a low alcohol content and for still wine Moscato d' Asti is also grown here. In Costigliole d' Asti also be vines of Barbera for the Barbera d'Asti, a grown red wine with DOCG status.
In the Castle of Costigliole since 1997 ( established in 1991 in Turin ) Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners ( ICIF ) settled that the education and training of foreign cooks in the Italian art of cooking devoted to.