Book Excerpt: Barolo, MGA Vol. II, The Birth of an Appellation

BY ALESSANDRO MASNAGHETTI | FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Many have written about the origins of Barolo as a wine, attempting to fix with greater and greater precision, both the date of its birth and that of the principal protagonists of the event, from Marquise Falletti to Count Cavour all the way to French oenologist Oudart.

Few, instead, have concerned themselves, and almost never in and, accordingly, as a group of rules and regulations which govern its production, limiting themselves often to a more or less significant listing of the principal dates and events. What was sufficient, nonetheless, to create a substantial divergence between the two inquests: if, in the first case, in fact, the reconstruction has vague and uncertain features, in the second the documentation still available today allows us to trace with a certain precision the course of events both in terms of timing and of development and to demonstrate, without any uncertainty, potential obscure points.