By Kerin O'Keefe
Following at the good fortune of her books on Brunello di Montalcino, well known writer and wine critic Kerin O'Keefe takes readers on a old and in-depth trip to find Barolo and Barbaresco, of Italy's so much attention-grabbing and storied wines. during this groundbreaking new ebook, O'Keefe provides a finished evaluation of the beautiful side-by-side turning out to be parts of those world-class wines which are separated in basic terms by Read more...
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Other theories claim that Nebbiolo’s name derives instead from the fog-like veil that forms on the skins of the dark berries during ripening. indd 18 • T h e P l ac e , t h e G r a pe , t h e H i s t or y, a n d t h e W i n e 24/07/14 2:29 PM theory speculates Nebbiolo derives from word nobile—meaning “noble” in Italian—in honor of the aristocrats and kings who grew Nebbiolo and who were among the first to produce Barolo at their country estates as well as serve the wine at court in the late 1800s.
According to Piedmont historian Giusi Mainardi, who contributed to and edited the above-mentioned book, Staglieno, who authored a benchmark manual on winemaking, Istruzione intorno al miglior modo di fare e conservare i vini in Piemonte, published in 1835, “was called upon by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour to follow winemaking at his Grinzane Cavour estate where he was the enologist from 1836 until the early 1840s. ’”4 This method was geared toward making quality wines destined for aging that could also withstand travel for export and that Mainardi’s research demonstrates were vinified dry.
In Sardinia, many vines once thought to be Nebbiolo actually turned out to be Dolcetto, although there are now 84 hectares (208 acres) of Nebbiolo planted on the island. 3 As the figures above suggest, Nebbiolo is most associated with Piedmont, which accounts for 80 percent of the world’s total plantings of Nebbiolo. Even in Piedmont, Nebbiolo accounts for only 9 percent of the region’s total wine production, and most of it is in the Langhe, which together with Roero counts 3,879 hectares (9,585 acres) of the grape.