Types of Barolo?

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and it looks like there are different types of Barolo (maybe different areas in Piedmont)? A quick web search turns up nothing. What, if any, information can be extracted from words such as:

Normale Aborina Brunate Ginestra Rocche

and others?

TIA, Bob

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These are names of specific vineyards except for Normale which means normal or not Riserva. The authorized Barolo communes are Barolo, Serralunga d' Alba, Castiglione Falletto, La Morra and Monforte d' Alba.

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Joe Beppe Rosenberg

I appreciate the info. Does the specific vineyard have any meaning (like "Growths" to Bordeaux, or altitiude/direction of sun that will have a direct bearing on the quality of the wine produced there)? Or is a producer and year good enough (for a newbie)?

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Thanks again, Bob

Joe Beppe Rosenberg wrote: : These are names of specific vineyards except for Normale which means normal : or not Riserva. The authorized Barolo communes are Barolo, Serralunga d' : Alba, Castiglione Falletto, La Morra and Monforte d' Alba.

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:> and it looks like there are different types of Barolo (maybe different :> areas in Piedmont)? A quick web search turns up nothing. What, if any, :> information can be extracted from words such as: :> :> Normale :> Aborina :> Brunate :> Ginestra :> Rocche :>

:> and others? :>

:> TIA, :> Bob

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"Annata" would be the right term for that.

M.

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Michael Pronay

"Normale" frequently appears on producers' and importers' lists to indicate the producer's basic offering (not on the label, which usually just says "Barolo") without a vinyard designation. As such it would usually (normally?) not be a riserva. But for the most part, the single-vinyard bottlings are not riservas, either.

Peter Masters

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PM

As to producers, "annata" appears much more frequently than "normale". As to importers, their mother language normally would not be Italian.

Anyhow, even the Italians' knowledge of Italian is not always perfect. You quite frequently hear the plurals "Baroli" or "Brunelli" in Italy, which is simply wrong, because as proper nouns/names they don't take a plural flexion.

M.

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Michael Pronay

The method of making Barolo has changed radically over the past 100 or so years. Between the 1930's and the 60's, the wine sat on the skins for a long period of time, and were then kept in a sealed barrell for a very long time. In the 70's and 80's the new kids began using techniques typical of French fine wine producing. This produced a radically different wine.

I do not think any labeling on the bottle indicates who did what when.

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gerald

Regular (basic) bottling.

Individual vineyard sites the producer bottles either in all or only in good years.

Which?

M.

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Michael Pronay

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