A famous winery with a legendary and well-deserved reputation for its wines, Orsolani has come to be recognized as the progenitor of premium quality Erbaluce as well as its modern ambassador.  From its beginnings in 1894 as an inn near Caluso, the estate was the first to produce a serious, complex version of the traditionally light and easy-drinking wine indigenous to Northern Piemonte.  It also championed the designation of several cru sites for the varietal and pioneered the creation of a Metodo Classico Spumante in the 1960s.