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

PREFACE This new book offers the reader an opportunity to get to know Barolo and its history through an updated and condensed version of the internationally award winning work The Mystique of Barolo by Maurizio Rosso and Chris Meier (Omega Edizioni, Torino 2000). These lines replace the original preface by the late Luigi Veronelli, who deserves a special mention. I met him in the 1960's for the first time and was fascinated by his poetic and imaginative style. He was a true lover of Barolo. I am only left with my memory of him as the great founder of food and wine journalism in Italy. Since then, many things have changed in our land: more vineyards have been planted, more wineries have been built and Barolo has reached unprecedented international acclaim. In the 1990's production grew to more than 10 million bottles per year and in the following decade it reached and even surpassed 12 million bottles. This new situation created the need for new management goals to lead Barolo out of its hiding place into the spotlight. What used to be an aristocratic wine for few Italian connoisseurs has become a leading international brand. Although Barolo is today a famous wine, it is not yet fully known and appreciated everywhere and there is room for new and original ideas to support its continuing achievements. Currently Barolo's success is due to single brand recognition, but in the future more individual energy should be devoted to its "collective mystique", which belongs to the Langhe, Piedmont and Italy as a whole. As I'm writing these lines I have just received the exceptional news that the vineyards of Barolo (toghether with those of Barbaresco and other wine districts in the Langhe-Roero and Monferrato) have received World Heritage Status from UNESCO "for OUV – Outstanding Universal Value", which not only provides global recognition for this region's culture, but also extraprotection for the environment. As you read the following pages do not forget to slowly sip a glass of this unique wine … Cheers! Gigi Rosso Senior Enologist and Barolo Producer in Castiglione Falletto

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