Top 100 red wines of Barolo - Page 3

Discover the top 100 best red wines of Barolo of Barolo as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the red wines that are popular of Barolo and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Barolo

The wine region of Barolo is located in the region of Piémont of Italy. We currently count 911 estates and châteaux in the of Barolo, producing 2022 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Barolo go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Discover the grape variety: Nebbiolo

A very old grape variety grown in the Italian Piedmont. It has a great resemblance with the Freisa, which also comes from the same Italian region. Among the various massal selections made in Italy, we find lampia, michet and rosé. It can be found in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico, the United States (California), Australia, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, perhaps because it is a delicate and demanding grape variety with, among other things, a fairly long phenological cycle.

Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Barolo

red wines from the region of Barolo go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef marengo "my mom" style, quiche with mixed vegetables or saddle of lamb with herbs.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Barolo

On the nose in the region of Barolo often reveals types of flavors of cherry, menthol or clove and sometimes also flavors of tropical, cream or cigar. In the mouth in the region of Barolo is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

News from the vineyard of Barolo

Letter from… Martin Crozier-Cook, a busy merchant

Martin Crozier-Cook is wine manager at Jeroboams food and wine store in Holland Park, west London. Jeroboams was voted Outstanding Retailer of the Year in the 2022 Decanter Retailer Awards Christmas time is when things get crazy – we all know this from our own experience of shopping in December. It brings out all sorts of behaviour in people. I help manage the Jeroboams store in leafy Holland Park, and I can tell you that a smile and a good sense of humour are absolutely necessary in making it t ...

Hospices de Beaune 2022 auction sets multiple ‘historic’ sales records

In what François Poher, director and chairman of the Board of Hospices Civils de Beaune, dubbed ‘historic and spectacular results’, the auction broke other records, including highest ever total for a charity wine auction and record total for any wine auction held by Sotheby’s, according to the auction house that managed the sale. The average price per barrel sold over Sunday’s seven-hour auction also reached a new high, at €35,974 topping last year’s record-setting average price per lot of €34,9 ...

Thieves steal hundreds of fine wines in Austria and Norway

Thieves continued to target some of the world’s most sought-after fine wines at the end of last year, with Austria’s Kracher Fine Wine and Norway’s Park 29 restaurant among the latest businesses to fall victim. Around 600 or 700 bottles of top-end wines were stolen at the end of November from Kracher Fine Wine, the merchant business that sits alongside highly regarded Kracher winery. ‘They knew exactly what they were looking for,’ director Gerhard Kracher told Decanter this week, adding some of ...