Ep 429: Marchesi di Barolo - Where Modern Barolo was Created

<p style="text-align: left;">Although much bigger, more well-known, and a bit fancier than the people I usually speak with, I wanted to make an exception and have the family who owns <a href= "https://marchesibarolo.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Marchesi di Barolo</a> on the show so they could explain how the modern style of Barolo was created by the winery. It's much more buttoned up, and less of the normal conversation style I usually do, but it's an essential bit of history that will help fill-in some gaps about Barolo!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://marchesibarolo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><br /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/123135852_3575192909186158_8627217357060899184_n.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="288" /></a><em><span style= "font-size: 8pt;">Marchesi di Barolo in Barolo, photo from <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/marchesibarolo/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Marchesi di Barolo's Facebook page</a></span></em></p> <p>There are a lot of historic wineries and a lot of people in wine claim to have been the first to create a wine or a technique. But this week, the Cantina that invented Barolo as we know it today - <a href="https://marchesibarolo.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Marchesi di Barolo</a> joins. In the mid- to late- 1800s the Marchesi di Barolo focused on the production of dry, ageworthy, complex Nebbiolo was created from a wine that Thomas Jeffereson described as:<br /> <em><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>“As silky as Madeira, as astringent as Bordeaux and as brisk as Champagne”</em></p> <p> </p> <p>Thankfully for those of us who love Barolo, the Marchesi had a different style in mind and created the wine as we know it today.</p> <p> </p> <p>The current owners, the Abbona family, purchased <a href= "https://marchesibarolo.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Marchesi di Barolo</a> and today the 6th genera