Barolo is an Italian wine, one of many to claim the title “Wine of kings, and king of wines”. This Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) wine is produced in the Cuneo province, south-west of Alba, within the region of Piemonte. The Barolo zone extends into the communes of Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d’Alba and parts of the communes of Cherasco, Diano d’Alba, Grinzane Cavour, La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Novello, Roddi, Verduno, all in the province of Cuneo. Only vineyards, planted in primarily calcareous-clay soils, in the hills with …

Barolo is an Italian wine, one of many to claim the title “Wine of kings, and king of wines”. This Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) wine is produced in the Cuneo province, south-west of Alba, within the region of Piemonte. The Barolo zone extends into the communes of Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d’Alba and parts of the communes of Cherasco, Diano d’Alba, Grinzane Cavour, La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Novello, Roddi, Verduno, all in the province of Cuneo. Only vineyards, planted in primarily calcareous-clay soils, in the hills with …

A Royal Wine from the Foot of the Alps
Barolo is one of Italy’s noblest wines. Born in the Piedmont region, literally at the foothills of the Alps, it is full-bodied, acidic, redolent of strawberries and violets, and carries the aristocratic DOCG appellation. Indeed, some call it a King among wines.
The wine takes its name from the tiny village of Barolo, one of a cluster of villages in the region, which devotes just around 3000 acres to the Nebbiolo grape, from which Barolo is made. Other villages that make up the …

Ingredients
6 1/2 to 7-pound boneless beef roast, chuck or bottom round, trimmed of fat
2 teaspoons coarse sea salt or kosher salt, or to taste
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
3 medium onions (1 1/4 pounds total), peeled and quartered
5 big carrots (about 2/3 pound), peeled and cut in 2-inch wedges
6 big celery stalks (2/3 pound total), cut in 2-inch chunks
8 plump garlic cloves, peeled
3 branches fresh rosemary with lots of needles
8 large fresh sage leaves
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 1/4 teaspoons whole black peppercorns
1 1/4 ounces dried porcini slices (about 1 1/4 …

The first thing that one notices about Barolo is that the town is situated differently than the other nearby towns, which perch on hilltops or stretch along ridges. Barolo, though, closes a small valley; it poses on a kind of spur-shaped plateau, standing out from the slopes that surround it like an amphitheatre.
There is no clear surviving evidence about the beginnings of Barolo. In pre-historic and later eras, the area was certainly inhabited by Celtic-Ligurian tribes, subdued later by the Romans, as well as by the Romans themselves, but it …