MARCHESI DI BAROLO
Marchesi di Barolo historical cellars are located in the town of Barolo, in the building overlooking the Castle of the Marquis Falletti. It is here that more than 200 years ago a beautiful story began.
The story of a wine cellar where, in the heart of the Langhe area and protected by gentle hills, a wine was born. That wine was then called Barolo, in honour of the town where it was produced for the first time.
No one at that time could imagine that it was destined one day to be king: the King of Wines, the Wine of the Kings.
The story begins precisely in 1807, in Paris, when the Marquis of Barolo Carlo Tancredi Falletti married Juliette Colbert de Maulévrier, a French noblewoman and the great-granddaughter of the Sun King’s well-known Minister of Finance.
Juliette saw the great potential of the wine made in Barolo that, after a complete fermentation and long ageing in wood, would have been able to unveil all the qualities typical of the soil and of the grape variety:
Nebbiolo, powerful and austere, able to last long and to express all the characteristics of this extraordinary terroir.
In 1864, Juliette’s death marked the end of the prestigious Falletti dynasty: in order to perpetuate the Marquise’s memory and charitable work, the Opera Pia Barolo was founded. This story was meant to cross path with the story of another family in Barolo: the Abbona family who had its own wine cellars “Cavalier Felice Abbona e Figli” next to the Castle of Marquis Falletti.
Indeed, at around the same time Pietro Abbona was born. Thanks to his skill and tenacity, Pietro, together with his brother Ernesto and his sisters Marina and Celestina, was eventually able to acquire the ancient cellars of vinification and refinement of the Marchesi di Barolo estate from the Opera Pia Barolo.
Today the Abbona Family continues the work that began more than two centuries ago: producing high-quality wines meant to enrich, year after year, the history of this important cellar where modernity and tradition meet and where a great heritage of vineyards and knowledge has been passed down from parents to children for over five generations.
Armed with great winemaking experience, Anna and Ernesto Abbona, together with their children Valentina and Davide, present themselves as faithful interpreters of the native vineyards and their locations, respecting them and rigorously preserving the typical qualities thanks to the vinification of the grapes that come from their own vineyards and the winemaking processes selected over many years of activity, focusing on the location and the cultivation capacities of the single vines.
The company controls about 200 hectares of vineyards, making wine from the main native vines of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato. To better specify and enhance the different expressions, the most prestigious Crus of Barolo and Barbaresco, from our own vineyards, are vinified in purity, aged and bottled individually.
To take in some history, it is possible to tour through Marchesi di Barolo’s XIX century cellars and wine library, where history is preserved in more than 30000 bottles of Barolo that have been carefully kept here since the late 1800s.
To welcome the many wine tourists, Marchesi di Barolo has created a large and functional reception area where visitors and enthusiasts can discover everything that surrounds and enriches the fascinating world of wine.
Also, Marchesi di Barolo offers a refined and elegant restaurant, La Foresteria, where you may savour the tradition of Piedmontese cuisine. Every course is paired with a different glass of wine which is carefully selected among the wineries’ production.
For reservations and information:
Tel: +39 0173 56.44.91 / +39 0173 56.44.19
E: Reception
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