Wine
Albenga and area
Malandrone Bottiglieria (Viale Pontelungo 6) Tel 0182-559054
This is a well-stocked shop with a knowledgeable and helpful owner. You'll find it in central Albenga just outside the walls of the centro storico. You can take in a cask and get it filled if you are really that thirsty!
Ansaldi (Viale Martiri Della Libertà 82) Tel 0182-540274
This beautiful shop is not far from the Albenga railway station. It stocks a small selection of very fine wines, champagnes & spirits, plus some top cigars, tobacco and chocolates.
Cascina Fèipu dei Massaretti (Loc. Massaretti, 8) Tel. 0182-20131
You can get the wines produced by 'Pippo' direct from the estate - Pigato (white) and Rossese (red). Go down to the traffic lights in Leca (just beyond the autostrada toll), turn right towards Bastia and then first right again. You'll find it on your left - if you go under the autostrada you've gone too far!
Sartori (Regione Torre Pernice, 3) Tel 0182-20042
You can go to the Sartori estate and visit the wine bar before making your purchase. You go down towards Albenga, and turn left at the roundabout just past UniEuro. A couple of hundred metres along, just as you start to go up the hill, turn to the left through some gates and into a long driveway leading to an old turret - which is the wine bar and shop. You can get Vermentino, Pigato, Rossese etc.
Alassio and area
Carpe Diem (Via XX Settembre 13) Tel 0182.470025
This lovely wine shop is in the budello (the main pedestrian shopping street). It is not a place for plonk, but for fine wines at a price!
Fiorini (Via Dante)
This shop has a very enticing selection of wine displayed in a shop front window towards the far end of Via Dante. You buy the wine, however, in the warehouse which is set back in the mews alongside.
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