Produttori del Barbaresco

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Produttori del Barbaresco refers to a wine cooperative in the northern Italian region of Piedmont . The eponymous municipality of Barbaresco is located approx. 10 km northeast of Alba . The Produttori del Barbaresco only grow the Nebbiolo grape variety , from which the Barbaresco wine is made.

history

In 1894 Domizio Cavazza, who ran the Regia Scuola Enologica di Alba (today: Istituto Umberto I) and owned the castle with the associated wine-growing business, founded the Cantina Sociale di Barbaresco . The combined producers of the Cantina Sociale brought the first wines on the market in 1894, which were officially known as Barbaresco . Before this time, the majority of the Nebbiolo grapes produced in the Barbaresco area were used for the production of Barolo and there is only sporadic information about wines that bear the name of their place of origin. Domizio Cavazza and the Cantina Sociale di Barbaresco are now considered to be the "inventors" of Barbaresco. From the year Domizio Cavezza died in 1913, economically difficult times followed for Barbaresco. The First World War , a renewed outbreak of the phylloxera plague , a heavy infestation of the vines with downy mildew and last but not least the fascist rule, which urged winegrowers to grow grain instead of wine, led to the closure of the Cantina Sociale di Barbaresco in the mid-1920s . The post-war period in Barbaresco was characterized by strong rural exodus and great poverty; a large part of the vineyards was abandoned. In order to counteract this development, the producer cooperative was re-established in 1958 by the local pastor Don Fiorino Marengo under the name Produttori del Barbaresco . From the beginning, the declared aim was to produce high-quality wines and to limit themselves to the Nebbiolo grape variety. To date, only Barbaresco and Nebbiolo base wines are produced. Since 1967 - influenced by the French model - part of the wine has been marketed as single vineyard selections (cru). In good wine-growing years, the wines are vinified separately according to the area under cultivation and the cooperative members who cultivate these areas are named on the labels. The Produttori del Barbaresco were the first producers in the region to follow this path with the wine-growing businesses of Angelo Gaja and Bruno Giacosa, which are still important today . This practice was a first step towards the official geographic map of the Barbaresco area that is valid today. (See Barbaresco ).

Today the Produttori del Barbaresco unite 50 winemakers who cultivate around 110 of the total of around 700 hectares of vineyards in the Barbaresco area.

Web links

  • [1] Homepage of the School of Oenology in Alba

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kerin O'Keefe: Barolo and Barbaresco - The King and Queen of Italian Wine University of California Press 2014 ISBN 978-0-520-27326-9
  2. ↑ Ianello, Attilio. Produttori del Barbaresco 1958-2008. Revello: Tipolitografia Nuova Stampa, 2008 "Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Produttori del Barbaresco"
  3. ^ Homepage of the Produttori del Barbaresco
  4. ↑ Statistics of the umbrella organization of the Italian protection consortia Federdoc