A story of those who plant vines and trees where millions of years ago there was sea. A story of hands made especially for grapes: to protect them, collect them and turn them into wine. It’s a story of bright green and soft seductive hills around the small town of Portacomaro.
For the past generations the Durando family never stopped loving and caring for their land. Today Alessandro and his wife Sara, together with their children Davide and Marta, are here to welcome you and let you share a bit of their history.

A story of those who plant vines and trees where millions of years ago there was sea. A story of hands made especially for grapes: to protect them, collect them and turn them into wine. It’s a story of bright green and soft seductive hills around the small town of Portacomaro.
For the past generations the Durando family never stopped loving and caring for their land. Today Alessandro and his wife Sara, together with their children Davide and Marta, are here to welcome you and let you share a bit of their history.

Monferrato is an open-air kitchen, a brimful table among vineyards and oaks filled with local specialties. Make sure not to be on a diet! However, don’t be fooled by the abundance, because Monferrato is also a pantry full of care. Our food is the result of devoted hands and instinct. We offer you genuine products faithful to local tradition. Hazelnuts and hazelnut-based products, local wines, stone-ground flours, seasonal products such as jams, gianduiotti, biscuits and cakes. But also cosmetics (we sell Poliphenolia vegan products for skin care) and every now and then, we prepare some excellent new products for you!

We transform the raw materials we cultivate into genuine products faithful to the local Monferrato tradition which for generations we have cherished with passion and care. We can proudly offer the delicious IGP Piedmont Hazelnut in its whole, natural version as well as grained  and salted. We make hazelnut based products such as 100% hazelnut paste, 60% spreadable cream,  stoneground flour, the traditional  “brut and bon” cakes, nougat and ex- quisite gianduiotti. We produce several red and white wines and grappas, not to mention seasonal products, like jam, that vary according to the time of the year and the harvest.

We’re the last generation of a family of farmers with a special love for hazelnuts. We’ve been carefully cultivating and harvesting our Piemonte IGP hazelnuts since 2008 in our bright, peaceful land of endless ridges. The hazelnuts come out of our Laboratory, also open to the public by appointment, in their very best form: toasted and ready to be eaten naturally, or in the incredibly ta- sty salted version. We also transform our hazelnuts into spreadable creams, including our famous Nuturally cream that leaves everyone happy, as well as biscuits, cakes, pasta and flour. If you’re a real hazelnut lover, our ice cream is a must! We make it according to a secret recipe from the area. When you think of it, there’s a whole tasteful world hiding inside a hazelnut. And here, you can discover every bit of it.

Here, in the land of the Durando family, where hazelnuts have been produced for 5 generations, we offer a delicious food experience open to everyone, designed to closely explore an incredible world full of stories and curiosities. You will discover that hazelnuts, in addition to being very tasty, prove to be useful allies in the battle for sustainability: from using the waste to make paper to the “noccioblocco”. You will find out in how many ways these precious fruits help us to be healthier and happier. After discovering the secrets, benefits and stories related to hazelnuts, we will show you how to make an irresistible dessert. A delicious cocoa and hazelnut cream, all made by you! With your hands in the dough, a little sugar and different types of cocoa, you learn how to prepare the best spreadable cream yourself, to enjoy on hot bread, in homemade desserts or directly from the jar!

We bring Grignolino and Barbera d’Asti, Ruchè, Bianco, Rosato and Moscato from our vineyard, to your table. We love all of our wines and have protected them from the beginning of our history: passing of the torch, changes or adverse weather have never stopped our production. The symbol of this resistance is our Grignolino Anarchico Testabalorda, a wine that was once the favorite of kings, but that today many treat as the slightly rebellious teenage brother: they don’t understand him and leave him be. They don’t know what they’re missing, and here you can find it out. It is said that sometimes, that destiny is hidden in the name. We are called Durando (that could be translated more or less like “long lasting”), and we have always moved forward, never given up or slowed down.