🍷Barolo DOCG

Known for it

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  Barolo

  Province: Cuneo · 301 m

  A Langhe borgo at 301 meters whose Castello Falletti gave its name to the wine the Marchesi turned dry in the 1830s with Cavour's help.

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  Castiglione Falletto

  Province: Cuneo · 350 m

  A Barolo hilltop commune in the Langhe, ringed by vineyards on both sides of its ridge.

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  La Morra

  Province: Cuneo · 513 m

  The hilltop above the Barolo zone, more Nebbiolo acreage than any other commune.

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  Monforte d'Alba

  Province: Cuneo · 480 m

  A Barolo cru village at 480 meters where the Cathars were burned in 1028 and where the summer jazz festival fills the old piazza.

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  Serralunga d'Alba

  Province: Cuneo · 414 m

  A 527-inhabitant Barolo cru village at 414 meters on a Langhe ridge, crowned by a 14th-century French-style donjon castle of the Falletti.

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  Verduno

  Province: Cuneo · 381 m

  A Langhe hilltop at 381 meters, the home village of the Pelaverga grape.

Inside the production zone

Towns of ours that the Barolo DOCG zone covers, read from the denomination’s own published rules. Lying inside a zone is a smaller claim than being the place people mean when they say the name, which is why these sit apart from the ones above.

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  Cherasco

  Province: Cuneo · 288 m

  A walled grid-plan town on the river terrace where the Stura di Demonte meets the Tanaro, on the western edge of the Langhe.

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  Grinzane Cavour

  Province: Cuneo · 195 m

  The Langhe village whose eleventh-century castle was Cavour's mayoral seat for seventeen years and now hosts the November Alba White Truffle World Auction.

Catalogue note: this is what we can document, not everything that qualifies. Where a zone is written in law as a whole province rather than a list of communes, we never expand it to towns, so a town missing here has not been ruled out. Plenty of comuni inside the wider zone also sit outside our catalogue of 1,000. See how the data is sourced.