Barolo: the king of red wines

Italian wines are always better and more loved. A nice glass of Italian wine makes perfect a meal, special an evening, and increases the international respect for the Made in Italy. The favorites and the best Italian wines are the red wines that represent more than half (56%) of the total of a billion bottles of wine purchased.
The king of red italian wines is Barolo, noble and generous wine with denomination of controlled and guaranteed origin DOCG wines produced in the province of Cuneo, in the towns of Barolo, Castiglione Falletto and Serralunga d'Alba and the municipalities of Cherasco , Monforte d'Alba, Novello, La Morra, etc. .
Acording to the legend the first to produceit is Giulia di Barolo, the wife of Carlo Tancredi the Marquis Falletti di Barolo, who sponsored the wine at the court of Turin sending to King Charles Albert 325 barrels by 10 kegs on a long train of wagons.
Majestic and powerful, aristocratic and long-lived, full of fascinating flavors, with an austere and velvety flavor complexity extraordinarily persistent, Barolo is a wine whose importance is documented with absolute certainty since 1868. Today every Barolo has a personality that expressed the characteristics of the micro area of production. All have in common a softer than before.
The most striking is the widespread use of the barrique, small oak barrels for aging wine, constructed of planks sawn but not obtained by splitting, bent by the heat produced by a fire burning inside.
It is made from Nebbiolo grapes, has a minimum alcohol content of 13 ° and must be subject to a minimum
aging of 3 years with at least 2 barrels of oak or chestnut. Color form deep garnet to ruby violet, noble and complex aromas of violet, red fruits, mint, earth, savory, deep and persistent flavour.