Barolo

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The Langhe are geologically situated in the Tertiary, or Cenozoic, Era, a period that began nearly 70 million years ago.
• White tufaceous marl characterises the production zone, which is situated on the high hills overlooking the Tanaro river.
• The soil belongs for the most part to the geological formation known as Tortonian, one of the 14 strata of the Piedmontese Tertiary basin.
• The Tortonian soil is composed of stratified marls and sands of a grey-bluish colour, not very resistant, which form low, rounded hills well suited to viticulture.
• The soils of Langa, mostly calcareous and tufaceous, formed principally during the Tortonian and Messinian ages, approximately 7 million years ago, through the gradual retreat of the Padanian Sea, which created dome-shaped hills with layers of limestone and tufa, with a more pronounced presence of gypsum and minerals in certain areas.

• Barolo established itself in the mid-nineteenth century thanks to the determination of Camillo Benso Count of Cavour and Giulia Colbert Falletti, the last Marchesa of Barolo, when production of an exceptionally rich and harmonious wine first began.
• Barolo is obtained from the single-variety vinification of Nebbiolo grapes, cultivated according to traditional methods with Guyot pruning and a trellis-trained growing system.

• The distinctive geological structure of the calcareous and tufaceous soils of Langa is the natural habitat of Nebbiolo, which here can express itself at its finest, yielding harmonious, structured, and long-lived wines.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A1389
• Official trade body site — Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani