Barolo, the story of a real wine

Barolo, a symbolic wine of Italian enology, boasts noble and peasant qualities at the same time. History has it that Juliette Colbert, wife of the last Marquis of Barolo, was able to promote this wine to the point of making it famous in the noble courts. Thanks to her resourcefulness and the friendship that bound her to Cavour, the marquise confronted the latter to devise the way to spread and make known this extraordinary wine. Cavour, in turn, turned to an enologist and merchant friend called Louis Oudart, who created Barolo as we know it today. Until that moment, Barolo was probably a different wine than it is today, moved and sweet, as it was worked in a fairly simple way. Giorgio Gallesio, in travel newspapers, describes the cellars of the Marquises of Barolo, as well as explaining that the grape used, which was Nebbiolo, could be enriched for a small percentage by a grape called Neiran. Today, however, Barolo is exclusively made with Nebbiolo grapes only.