Wineries

Cantina Cooperativa Villa di Tirano e Bianzone

Triacca

Tenuta La Gatta was built 500 years ago. It was originally a Dominican convent, now is the temple of the Triacca wines.


Already for several years, the Triacca family has been welcoming at the former monastery, in Bianzone, its Swiss and German customers. Over the past two years a national and international interesting tourist movement is developing.


The didactic and tourism routes that we offer to the interlocutors have always origin from the vineyards, the thirteen hectares surrounding the estate express the greatness of viticulture in Valtellina. It continues with a visit to the barrel cellar with as many as three hundred oak barrels surrounded by an authentic atmosphere of the past.


On the ground floor La Gatta has a modern and highly functional wine store through which you have direct access to the sixteenth century wine cellar. It can host up to 54 people, who may be accompanied in the visit/tasting by multilingual operators or serve themselves the desired wine with an automatic system.


This is done by using a badge that is issued at the reception.


Visitors also have the opportunity to follow the tasting with the videos that are hanging on the walls and choose to pair wines with selected cheese.


For a more careful and demanding public we offer, instead, professional and customized wine tastings (eg. vertical tastings, historic vintages) that take place in one of the four vintage halls of the Estate. The rooms are well suited to themed evenings, meetings, conventions, exhibitions, courses and cultural and gastronomic deepenings.


In particular, the rooms have been restored to enhance La Gatta as a tourism destination, to create the ideal hospitality for all types of visitors.


Finally, for those who enjoy walking it is possible to make two routes, of short and long duration, among the terraces that surround the estate.


Tenuta La Gatta is easy to reach and is located at the foot of the Retico slope and close to the highway 38, has ample parking, suitable for also for big coaches.