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The Langhe hills south of Alba produce two of the world's great red wines, one of its most expensive natural foods, and some of its most refined cooking. In October, when the vines turn gold and the truffle season opens, there is nowhere in Italy we would rather take you.

Barolo cellars, fireside dinners and the Langhe in winter — three days that explain why this corner of Italy belongs to those who have learned to wait. There is a particular cold in the Langhe in February that the locals describe as giusto — proper, correct, the cold the wine wants. It is not the harsh, dry cold of the Alps further north; it is a damp, fog-edged cold that sits low in the valleys, lifts by mid-morning, and leaves the vineyards smelling of wet earth and woodsmo