Thank you for the award!

Enrico Salvi owner of Centro Vini awarded "Master of Commerce"

A Golden Eagle was awarded to Enrico Salvi, owner of Enoteca Centro Vini in Piazza San Francesco, Luino. After many years spent working in catering, among ships and hotels in Italy and abroad, Enrico Salvi founded Enoteca Centro Vini in 1979. Centro Vini has become a well-known and popular business not only among the inhabitants of the lakeside town but also among numerous tourists, especially Germans, Swiss and Dutch. A clientele that over time, as Salvi himself reports, has changed and evolved, but which has also earned the wine shop other recognitions in addition to the one it has just obtained, such as the inclusion in the 2020 edition of the Il Golosario gastronomic guide.

We sincerely thank you for this recognition and honorific status. We are proud to be able to continue this activity with passion and enthusiasm, even today as in the past.

Order of the Knights of the Truffle and Wines of Alba

What should we say about the so called Optimus Potor  from the last century, men born and having spent their whole life in the Langa , who were used to do wine and drink it in thick tavern glasses filled up without keeping the void space required by good manners and etiquette?

If only they had followed the example of who combines cold served Foie Gras and Chateau d’Yquem, or lobate and Fiorano bianco,

or even more Tocai di Lison and pasta with beans, if only could they have known how a perfect combination can be the one of wild hare meat and a 6-8 years old Taurasi served at 18°C, or the one of chicken with peppers and a Termine di Monteriggioni,

in that case they would have been able to become O.P., they too!!!

A real O.P. aspire to having served little Piedmont cows’ milk cheese with a well aged Cartizze wine, or a Robiola cheese near to a young Ramandolo di Nimis ,

while theese men born and grown up in the Langa persist in drinking “Dolcetto della Cascina Drago” wine together with the unrefined Gorgonzola slice, which almost overflows the dish in their cellar,

even though everybody knows that the right wine required near to Gorgonzola cheese is the so called Picolit della Roccabernarda .

Gigi Marsico – Pharmacist from Alba, Piedmont