Lakes and woods, hills and mountains, castles and lordly residences, the splendid Sierra of Ivrea, with its luxuriant and sometimes even heroic vineyards: this is the Canavese, a corner of the world crowned by the Gran Paradiso National Park, which seems a thousand miles away from all metropolises, but is actually very near Turin and easily reached from Milan by means of the motorway that leads to Valle d'Aosta.

Here, at a skip and a jump from Ivrea, stands the town of Chiaverano which has conserved the appearance of a medieval village nestled at the foot of the Sierra, the straight mountain ridge 25 kilometers long, modeled in prehistoric times by the immense glacier that came down from the Valle d'Aosta.
And in Chiaverano, for at least two centuries, the Revel Chion family has lived and worked. They are farmers by birth and grappa-distillers by vocation.