Maurizio Rosso, nato ad Alba nel 1963, è scrittore, giornalista pubblicista e Direttore Marketing ed Export Manager della Cantina Gigi Rosso, azienda di famiglia nel cuore della zona del Barolo. Laureato in Lingue e Letterature Straniere all'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, ha approfondito gli studi in Letteratura Angloamericana presso la University of California Santa Cruz, sviluppando una formazione umanistica che ha saputo intrecciare con la profonda conoscenza del territorio delle Langhe. La sua produzione letteraria spazia dalla saggistica alla narrativa: tra le sue opere figurano Piemontesi nel Far-west (1990), studio sull'emigrazione piemontese in California, Barolo: Personaggi e mito (2000) e Barolo. Mito di Langa, analisi storico-culturali del grande vino delle Langhe che esplorano territorio, tradizioni produttive e personaggi che hanno costruito la leggenda di questo rosso piemontese. Ha inoltre pubblicato Il castello dei Catari (1996), vincitore del Premio del Presidente "Cesare Pavese" nel 1997, e il romanzo L'amante di Socrate (2006), ambientato nell'Antica Grecia. Dal 1988 gestisce le relazioni commerciali della Cantina Gigi Rosso in Europa, Nord America e Asia, parlando fluentemente cinque lingue. Giornalista pubblicista dal 1985, collabora con testate locali e regionali piemontesi. Attraverso il blog gigirosso.wordpress.com condivide la sua teoria del vino e dialoga con appassionati, unendo competenza professionale, ricerca storica e passione divulgativa per il mondo del Barolo e della viticoltura langarola.

Maurizio Rosso

Maurizio Rosso, scrittore e Export Manager Cantina Gigi Rosso. Autore di "Barolo. Mito di Langa" e saggi sul vino, esperto delle Langhe piemontesi.

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Unlock it for free with the code "MITOBAROLO" Barolo. Mito di Langa is a prestigious, richly illustrated volume in which Maurizio Rosso pays tribute to the king of Piedmontese wines and its native territory. Through a narrative that weaves together history, geography, and wine culture, the book takes readers on a fascinating journey through the vineyards of the eleven municipalities of the denomination: Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Cherasco, Diano d'Alba, Grinzane Cavour, La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Novello, Roddi, Serralunga d'Alba, and Verduno. The volume traces the history of Barolo from the first century BC, when the Liguri Stazielli cultivated wild vines in the Langhe, through the earliest documentary references to "Nibiol" in 1268 and "Nebiolium" in the statutes of La Morra dating to 1512, up to the first certain mention of "Barolo" wine in a document from the Turin State Archives in 1865 and the delimitation of the subzones in the year 2000. At the heart of the narrative are the great figures who shaped the history of Barolo: from Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, to Vittorio Emanuele II, from the Marquises of Barolo to Renato Ratti, from Ferdinando Vignolo-Lutati to Giuseppe Cappellano. Historical notes, impressions, and testimonies alternate with evocative images of vineyards, Langhe landscapes, and castles, composing a complete and compelling portrait of a wine that stands as the pinnacle of Italian viticulture. Published under the patronage of the Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani, the volume celebrates not only a great wine, but an entire territory and its millennia-old culture.

Preface

Barolo, a Wine from far away

From Myth to History

The Barolo Zone

Barolo and its Legislation

Producing Barolo

Appreciating Barolo

Vintages

Geographic Mentions for Barolo

Index of Producers

Regional Wine Shops

Chronology of Barolo

Barolo Glossary

Bibliography

VINTAGES* * Vintages 1868-1992 reviewed by Renato Ratti and his family (see pag. 68) and Maurizio Rosso 1993 – present. Wine with great body, perfect balance, delicate perfume, complete. 1868 EXCEPTIONAL VINTAGE. A balanced wine with a delicate perfume. 1869 GOOD VINTAGE. An elegant wine, slightly less alcoholic than average. 1870 GOOD VINTAGE. Average quality, in some cases mediocre, in others very good. 1871 NORMAL VINTAGE. Quality lower than average; wine with little body. 1872 NORMAL VINTAGE. A vigorous wine though rather lacking in character and unrefined. 1873 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. Wine with high total acidity, thin. 1874 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. 1875 BAD VINTAGE. A robust wine, perhaps a little hard, long-living. 1876 GOOD VINTAGE. Wine of average quality, rather tight but intensely perfumed. 1877 NORMAL VINTAGE. 1878 BAD VINTAGE. A robust wine despite high yields, of remarkable character and vigour. 1879 GREAT VINTAGE. An unremarkable wine. 1880 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. A pleasant wine, tight yet fine. 1881 NORMAL VINTAGE. Excessively acidic wine with scarce and insufficient perfume. 1882 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. Rather low yields; a thin but fine wine. 1883 NORMAL VINTAGE. 1884 BAD VINTAGE. A tight but elegant and perfumed wine. 1885 GOOD VINTAGE. A robust, tasty wine of great substance. 1886 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. A wine of true class, strong and complete with remarkable perfume. 1887 GREAT VINTAGE. A pasty wine, not alcoholic, reasonable perfume. 1888 NORMAL VINTAGE. A very rich, rounded wine with substance; rather scarce on colour. 1889 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. A full wine with intense perfume and excellent balance. 1890 GOOD VINTAGE. A thin tight wine. 1891 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. A very pleasing, fine wine of medium body. 1892 NORMAL VINTAGE. 1893 BAD VINTAGE. A vigorous wine of magnificent substance, great character and full and perfect balance. 1894 EXCEPTIONAL VINTAGE. An elegant very fine wine. 1895 GOOD VINTAGE. A tight though vinous wine. 1896 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. Full, vigorous wine. Very low yields owing to a disastrous spring freeze. 1897 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. A rather hard wine at the start becoming elegant and balanced; very long-lived. 1898 GREAT VINTAGE. Velvety wine with intense perfume, very pleasurable. 1899 NORMAL VINTAGE. A right but very elegant wine. 1900 NORMAL VINTAGE. A hard acidic wine with little character. 1901 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. 1902 BAD VINTAGE. A robust, balanced wine. 1903 NORMAL VINTAGE. 1904 BAD VINTAGE. A complete, full, elegant wine. 1905 GREAT VINTAGE. A robust, classy wine. 1906 GOOD VINTAGE. A very well turned-out wine, of balanced strength, very elegant. 1907 GREAT VINTAGE. A full wine of good substance though scarce in colour. 1908 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. A wine with little colour and body but quite refined. 1909 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. A very elegant wine, rather lacking in colour but with correct austerity. 1910 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. A very robust, classy wine though a bit hard. 1911 GOOD VINTAGE. A vigorous wine of great substance and intense, balanced perfume. 1912 GREAT VINTAGE. A fairly complete wine, robust and velvety. 1913 NORMAL VINTAGE. A wine with good character and fine perfume. 1914 NORMAL VINTAGE. 1915 BAD VINTAGE. A thin, acidic wine with poor colour. 1916 NORMAL VINTAGE. A full, robust wine with finely pronounced perfume. 1917 GREAT VINTAGE. A tight, nervous but fine wine. 1918 NORMAL VINTAGE. A very fine, elegant, full wine with a strong and excellent character. 1919 GREAT VINTAGE. A robust wine, correctly full and intensely perfumed. 1920 GOOD VINTAGE. Wine with good character, balanced and with fine perfume. 1921 NORMAL VINTAGE. A wine of splendid substance, full, balanced, intensely perfumed and extraordinarily suitable for ageing. 1922 EXCEPTIONAL VINTAGE. Not a very robust wine yet possessing good character. 1923 NORMAL VINTAGE. Averagely robust wine with excellent balance. 1924 GOOD VINTAGE. A wine with pronounced character, complete and elegant. 1925 EXCELLENT VINTAGE. A fairly robust but hard and discordant wine. 1926 MEDIOCRE VINTAGE. An intensely perfumed wine, correctly robust and with remarkable character. 1927 GREAT VINTAGE. An excellent vinous wine, fairly robust and fine. 1928 NORMAL VINTAGE. Scarce vintage owing to early hail giving a full, very robust and well-balanced wine. 1929 GREAT VINTAGE. A fairly full and velvety wine. 1930 NORMAL VINTAGE. A velvety wine with splendid character and magnificent fullness and austerity. 1931 EXCEPTIONAL VINTAGE.

Barolo. Mito di Langa by Maurizio Rosso: history, people and terroirs of the great Piedmontese wine, from antiquity to today.