The Story of a Revolution (Barolo Boys. Barolo Boys. To counter this scandal, the Barolo families came together for the first time ever, to dedicate themselves to producing only the highest quality wines from their Nebbiolo grapes. The price differential, however, was breathtaking, especially when one considers that it wasn’t that long ago, perhaps 30 years, that Barolos were pretty much unknown to the world, and locally in northern Italy only as (to paraphrase an old Barolo farmer) an unpleasant sweetish wine that tasted more like bad Marsala than one of Italy’s finest red wines. I was having dinner Christmas Eve 2015 at restaurant in the beautiful Sonoma Valley, California.
“And if the crew later separated, and some stayed in one place and others in another, well, that’s what happens when you sail the seas. The Barolo Boys were poised to begin making just such a wine, and in this way, to begin earning the living that they deserved as farmers. Approaching one winery, he met the owner just as he was stepping into his Ferrari, and told him that he wanted to taste some wines. Both are excellent Italian red wines. There seems to be no ready explanation as to why, so I turned to that flamboyant Italian/American Marco di Grazio, whose college majors were in Classic Greek Literature. It’s been a beautiful journey,” he concludes, smiling somewhat enigmatically.In the fog-shrouded Langhe Hills, thanks to those audacious Barolo boys and girls, the journey still continues.
“No wonder the wine wasn’t good,” she added.From wine journals being published about that time, Altare discovered two basic principles to producing greatness in wines, revolutionary principles for the Langhe Hills, commonplace by today’s standards: green-harvesting (crop-thinning) to produce more richly flavored grapes; and ageing the wine in French oak So the young Barolo farmers, understanding that such practices were necessary to create more alluring wines, persevered, going into their vineyards at dawn to take even more clusters off while their elders were still asleep.
Until the 1970s, the region was dying from centuries of stagnation. Storia di una Rivoluzione) is a 2014 documentary film about the story of a group of young winemakers (after called the Barolo Boys) who in the 1980s and '90s dramatically changed the world of Barolo wine, in the Langhe, north-western Italy. Then something happened, a spark, that inspired one enterprising young Barolo farmer, Elio Altare, to take a short trip into Burgundy, a trip that revolutionized the course of history for the Langhe Hills of Barolo region, and its farmers.This spark, according to Altare, was a hungry stomach, and is documented in a 2014 film So in 1976, driven by his frustration and his empty stomach, he got into his car and drove over the border to Burgundy, which was long known for its world-class wines. They compared notes of their practices, tasted their wines, and determined These new developments in the Langhe Hills soon caught the attention of an enthusiastic Italian/American wine importer, Marco di Grazio, who found the oak-infused Barolo wines exciting, and believed that his American clients would also find them exciting. The question for Altare became how to bring out the greatness in his Barolos.Barolo was traditionally just a table wine. Diese bildeten alsbald eine „Barolo Boys“ genannte Gruppe, die neue önologische Techniken im Weinbau ihrer Heimat einführten. He was right!By the early 1990s, some of the Langhe Hills producers were receiving the the However, it wasn’t just the improved prices that their awards brought them that helped along the Barolo Boys—and Girls.
The biggest disagreement as to what exactly is the character and nature of a great wine still seems to revolve around what percentage of new oak to use in each vintage (and even if 225-liter British importer of Italian wines, David Berry Green, expresses best the dangers of the modernists’ practices of ageing their Barolos in an excess of new oak“We did go a bit overboard,” admitted Di Grazio, “with the Wine has been part of the civilized world for centuries, yet something revolutionary happened in the last half of the last century, dramatic enough to even penetrate the isolated Langhe Hills. Elio Altare, who stands by his French barriques, believes that, no matter the style, “a great wine is always good”; others stand by a more traditional approach: “I think Barolo should remain a difficult wine, austere, with its at times aggressive tannins, and with an immediate lack of pleasantness,” said Mr. Rinaldi. The Story of a Revolution (2014) For the first time on the big screen, the film tells the fascinating story of one on the world's most famous wines and how it exploded as a world phenomenon. Young Barolo farmers like Elio Altare, explained the narrator, were ready to leave the tradition of agricultural poverty while having no wish to leave their land. She describes how she went back and tasted Barolos from the 1940s made by her father. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Film.If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces.To use this banner, please refer to the documentation.To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines. This is partly due to the work and innovations of the Barolo Boys, or Modernists, who introduced a series of technical innovations in the world of Italian wine.The film focuses on these innovations, and the contrasts that derived from these changes, but also depicts the friendship and spirit of the group behind these producers and their success.
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