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Articles, tastings and in-depth features on Barolo.
Barolo Lazzarito, the essence of Serralunga d'Alba
One of the Barolo personalities I have had the pleasure of knowing for some time, and who a few years ago guided me through a visit to his winery during one of my study trips, is Sergio Germano, son of Ettore - the founder of the winery that bears his name - and...
Barolo Castellero Fratelli Barale: vertical tasting 2011 - 1985
I attended the Life of Wine event in Rome, where wines from some of the most important wineries on the national wine scene were being tasted. The distinctive feature of Life of Wine is that participating estates present at least two historic vintages of their chosen wine, in addition to the currently available release...
Cavallotto, the Barolo of Bricco Boschis
Between the Cavallotto winery and Bricco Boschis there exists an extremely close bond. When one speaks of Bricco Boschis, it is clear we are referring to Cavallotto and vice versa. And not only because this historic cru of the Langhe is entirely...
Elvio Cogno, Barolo bids farewell to one of its patriarchs
Elvio Cogno, wine producer in the Langa region, passed away yesterday at 79 at the hospital in Alba after a long illness. Tradition and quality will live on in his wines, the same tradition that led him to revalue the Anas-Cetta (Nasc...
Aurelio Settimo, the Essence of Barolo Rocche dell'Annunziata
Once again Vinitaly, and once again a vertical tasting that I would not hesitate to call astounding. That's how it happened that, wandering among the stands, I stopped at the Aurelio Settimo winery. There I met Tiziana, the founder's daughter, who took the reins of the estate after her father's passing...
Marchesi di Barolo, how the Barolo Riserva evolves
At Vinitaly one has the extraordinary opportunity to meet, in a reasonably short time, wine personalities known over the years who operate in territories far from home, even hundreds of kilometers away. And so I stopped by the stand of the Marchesi di Barolo...
Vignaioli di Langa e Piemonte: Event in Rome
The sensory experience of Nebbiolo, the beautiful prince of the Langhe. Nebbiolo, an extraordinary and complex grape, exhilarating yet difficult to cultivate. It combines low productivity with a difficult adaptability to soils other than its native ones...
Poderi e Cantine Oddero, the prestige of Barolo Vigna Mondoca 2006
I went to visit Mariacristina Oddero at the historic winery, in the frazione Santa Maria in the municipality of La Morra. And I lived one of the most beautiful experiences of my journey through the Langhe of Barolo. Poderi e Cantine Oddero is one of the most historic and well-known...
Marchesi di Barolo: tasting the Barolo Cannubi 1982
At the end of the winery visit, lunch with Ernesto Abbona, President of Marchesi di Barolo, in the foresteria, a refined restaurant inside the estate. A tasting menu was served, paired with some of the winery's most representative wines and a few hidden gems...
Marchesi di Barolo, tradition and legend
I visited Barolo and toured the traditional winery of Marchesi di Barolo, a cellar that rightfully belongs to the winemaking history of the Langhe and beyond. During the visit, I had the opportunity to spend a good half day in ...
Cantina Pira: Barolo di Serralunga d'Alba
We are in Serralunga d'Alba, in the south-eastern area of the Barolo production zone. From a geological standpoint, the territory emerged from the sea in an earlier era, during the so-called Serravallian period, approximately 15 million years ago. On the wes...
Brezza: Barolo di Barolo, expression of different cru.
We stopped by the Brezza stand and tasted their prestigious single-cru vintage Barolo. A unique opportunity, absolutely not to be missed, to taste the fruit of some of the most renowned vineyards in the comune of Barolo, as well as the...