Barolo Tour
Two jobs, one hillside

Barolo Tour is Daniele Druetta's business, and it started where the work actually is: between Alba and the Barolo villages, in a landscape where every hill has a winery and none of those wineries can be reached by public transport.

It is a small, owner-run operation, and that is a choice. The person who answers the phone is the same person who then drives, which is why hotels and agencies in the area have worked with us for years: they know that a guest they hand over is treated as our own. The promise has never changed, dependability and punctuality, in vehicles kept properly.

Over time the work split into two halves that hold each other up. On one side the transfers: the Turin and Milan airports, Genoa, and in winter the ski resorts of the Aosta Valley, the Via Lattea and across the French border. On the other, the days out on our own ground: cellar visits across Barolo, Barbaresco and the Roero, truffle hunts with local trifolao, the castles and the villages.

More often than not the two meet in the same week: we collect somebody at Caselle on the Friday, drive them among the cellars on the Saturday and take them back to the airport on the Sunday. That is the work we like best.