Langhe

And it could be very minutes or much longer.

We also saw some ringers in there we didn't, but Austria- Uh, Argentina and the Langhe region of Piemonte.

Uh, we ended up buying two wines, uh, that we're gonna discuss because each of them is from a rosé ...

They're specialized rosés from the area.

Yes.

Uh, so this is, uh, what is called a Langhe Rosso.

Oh.

Langhe being a sub-appalachian in the Barolo zone-

Okay

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It really, really depends.

And there are many factors that play behind that, right? So, for example, there are, for starters, we have, you know, regions in Italy, Langhe area, Barolo Barbaresco or Chianti Classico, where you can potentially have more than one producer because the styles are different, because the price points are different.

And this kind of matches what's happening on the marketplace because those are two very large categories for Italian wine.

When it comes to Abruzzo, for example, or Basilicata, it becomes much more difficult to represent, at least for a company like ours, to represent more than one producer and to make them happy.

O meglio, era il periodo della vendemmia.

In provincia di Arezzo hanno iniziato a raccogliere l'uva a inizio settembre, in alta Langa a fine agosto e in Sicilia a Ferragosto avevano già finito.

Sono Eugenio Signoroni e questo è Contorni, il podcast che ogni settimana parla di cibo attraverso i fatti del mondo e dei fatti del mondo attraverso il cibo.

Un progetto di Coramedia realizzato con il sostegno di Davide Longoni, parte del gruppo Brothers.

E io ho iniziato praticamente il dolcetto il 3 di settembre e il barbera il 5 di settembre.

Normalmente il barbera, la data classica era dall'1 al 5 di ottobre.

Lui è Elio Sandri, uno dei produttori di Langa più noti e celebrati.

Sono andato a trovarlo nella sua cantina in località Disa, a Monforte d'Alba.

but in Italy, and actually this label represents in a way our foundation, a foundation which is related to the royal history of Italy, because Fontana Fredda was founded by the first king of Italy, so the king who unified Italy in 1861.

But a few years before the unification, this king, his name was Victor Emmanuel II, he decided to buy an estate, a wine estate in the southern part of Piedmont, in the Langhe region, in order to start producing wines, specifically Barolo, on a larger scale.

And so this label, represented the identity of the state because it brings the royal crest, the royal emblem, and this kind of design of image remained unchanged across the decades.

And we made some restyling, but in a way it's something which is very, very close to the original image of that label.

So in Piedmont, normally all our wines are based on 100%.

single varietal and so the Nebbiolo based wines are mainly based on, are definitely based on Nebbiolo.

Sometimes we produce what we call Langhe Rosso, Langhe Red, which is a blend between Nebbiolo and other indigenous grapes like Barbera, like Dolcetto.

So it's a more, I could say, a terroir expression and not necessarily just an expression of the single personality of a grape.

Today, sometimes, uh, in my opinion, of course, uh, the base Nebbiolo are much better than some Barolo or Barbaresco, and it means that really the temperature, the weather is, is changing.

And I'm afraid that in the future, probably Nebbiolo could be not the best variety for Langhe.

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A- and this means that probably if the climate change is going as it's going now, if Nebbiolo 20 years ago, all the producer need to have a long barrel aging to find a, a balance in the wine because the grape will have a lot of tannins, a lot of acidity, and they cannot produce a good base Nebbiolo.

But today, sometimes, uh, in my opinion, of course, uh, the base Nebbiolo are much better than some Barolo or Barbaresco, and it means that really the temperature, the weather is, is changing.

And I'm afraid that in the future, probably Nebbiolo could be not the best variety for Langhe.

Maybe the climate is, is going back and so what I'm telling now is, uh, nothing important.