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Drinking in Barolo

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Growing up in the wine country in California up through my teenage years I learned about wine, drinking it since I was 10 (before 14 it was only on special occasions and half the glass was water). so whenever I go to another country I often pay attention to the wine. And people who know about Italy generally learned something about the wine before they arrive. Barolo is considered one of the best general wines made in Italy. So visiting this general area and seeing that name on the map, of course I had to visit. It is definitely worth a day trip and you will be able to go to various places to taste wine. I tried the one at the castle at the top which has automated wine tasting which is explained below.

Going up by bus and seeing the last leg of the trip travels a two-way road wide enough for one vehicle.
The whole city is about wine
I guess not peak tourist season so this place was closed
Everywhere you look in this area you will see grape vines
The lunch was very elegant with homemade bread containing some fruit and a few nuts with very delicious breadsticks and a butter with something else mixed together.
The primi Was salmon on some rice and tiny beans mixed with some potato sauce
secondi was A brown rice and a rich sauce
A very nice restaurant
You can visit the castle to do some wine tasting
Of course the focus of the winetasting is Barolo
This was the first one I tried and the one I liked the best
This is the automated wine tasting. They have four bottles in the case that you can taste. You get a card at the front desk which you pay for later after you taste the wine. You put the card in the little slot below the map and just above the wines. Below the slot and above the bottles you can see these small rectangular screens. Each screen has a series of three amounts you can choose from. On the screen you press and hold one of the three amounts you want to taste. Each amount has a price next to it. Make sure your glass is underneath the pipe below the rectangular screen since that’s where the wine comes out into your glass. It will stop dispensing wine when your amount has been reached. The amount you chose well then be added in the euro amount on the card you put in the slot. So you just go around to the different dispensers and taste whatever wine you want and in the end you pay for what you had dispensed into your glass. It’s a pretty interesting system
This was the second one I tried
This was the third one
I just like this label
The different areas have different levels of soil and rock. These differences are displayed for each area. This one here is for the area where Barolo Wine grapes are harvested.
The map above each type of wine shows where a certain kind of grape comes from
Looking down on the little town. The best part of the town actually is a little more compact and old
I tried this wine in the restaurant for lunch. It was a very light fresh red wine with a sour taste which was kind of nice
The wines below are all the ones I tasted
A €200 bottle of Grappa
Amarone Is also one of my favorite

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