Welcome to Barololand!
Australia’s leading Italian wine merchant
from Barolo to Brunello.
“There is no more passionate advocate for Italian wine in Australia nor greater font of knowledge than David Ridge”
ANGUS HUGHSON
Founder & Publisher | Winepilot | The Australian Ark | The Vintage Journal
Australian Editor | VINOUS with Antonio Galloni
GIOVANNI SORDO BAROLO 2017
“We recently revisited this stellar vintage, and all of Sordo’s wines looked fabulous! They are pure and expressive of their respective vineyards. It is a rare opportunity to secure an impressive selection of museum-release wines directly from the winery.”
DAVID RIDGE
“Tasted all these wines last night. Outstanding. You should buy heaps! Great style, big old wood, and perfect balance.”
CHESTER OSBORN
Chief Winemaker and Viticultralist | d’Arenberg
MARCHESI DI GRESY
The wines of the Marchesi di Gresy are some of the most beautiful you will experience. The Nebbiolo of their famed Grand Cru Monopole, Matinenga, produces wines of incredible colour, perfumes, intensity and elegance. The di Gresy family have been in Barbaresco for centuries. They record taking ownership of the Monte Aribaldo property in Treiso comune in 1650 and in 1797 they were gifted Martinenga itself, site of the first Roman settlement in the area, known then as Villa Martis. Yet the family only started to vinify from this famous property for themselves in the 1970’s.
BAROLO
Barolo is a number of things…
Barolo is a village 70 km south of Turin in the Province of Cuneo, in the Region (State) of Piemonte (Piedmont in English and never the hybrid/mongrel Piedmonte!). A beautiful little town, framed by the Castello di Barolo, and small enough to walk fairly thoroughly in under an hour. It contains, just within a couple of hundred metres of each other, the actual cellar doors and wineries, of such famous names as Mascarello (Bartolo), Brezza, Borgogno, Barale, Chiara Boschis, Marchesi di Barolo and Giuseppe Rinaldi; each of which you can almost stumble upon, such are their (mostly) unprepossessing frontages. The comune’s most famous vineyard Cannubi, itself starts right on the edge of the village.
Barolo village also gives its name to one of the 11 comunes that make up the Barolo wine zone; this is the Barolo DOCG….