440: Aldo Vacca on the History and Future of Barbaresco

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🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Aldo Vacca is the Managing Director of the Produttori del Barbaresco, in the Barbaresco zone of Italy's Piemonte region.

Aldo discusses the foundations of Barbaresco as a delimited zone, and talks about the origins of the Produttori del Barbaresco. He gives a sense of how the winemaking at the Produttori has evolved over time. He also describes the characteristics of some of the important crus of the Barbaresco area, and addresses the differences between some recent vintages and those of the past. While explaining how Barbaresco has developed over the course of a century and more, Aldo points out some of the key changes that have occurred in the region.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, I Alta Vaca, the managing area of the Pimante.
0:38.0	It's also an area you grew up in and your dad and grandfather were both involved with this cooperative, right?
0:44.0	Yes, so my joke is that the family doesn't own the winery, but the winery owns the family probably.
0:50.0	Actually, my grand-grandfather was one of the original nine Barbarisco landowners who, together
0:57.6	with Mr. Domitio Kavatsa in 1894, started the first Cantina Sochale, one cooperative in town in the castle.
1:06.4	That company was closed in the 20s.
1:08.5	Then both my grandfathers from both side of the family were among the original 19 founders of the
1:14.4	Productore del Barberesco founded in 1958. So there were really two
1:19.6	cooperatives. One started. Yes. It was kind of a big deal and then it ended. Exactly. it was
1:25.0	a kind of a big deal and then it ended it.
1:24.0	Exactly.
1:25.0	It wasn't really called the co-operative, it was more called the cantina socciare,
1:28.0	but basically thanks to the vision of this man, Domitio Cabotza,
1:32.0	which is considered the father of Barberesco.
1:34.6	He was a viticulturist, an agronomist, brilliant mind, originally from Emilia, Romania,
1:41.4	near Bologna, and he moved to Barberesco in 1888 because he was hired
1:48.1	to be the director of the first director of the Wine School of Alba, which was founded in 1988. So he moved to the
1:55.2	region and decided to live in the village of Barbaresco. He bought the castle,
1:59.3	things that people could do in those days. And it started to run the wine school in Alba, but also took
2:07.4	of course an interest in the village life, the village wine, and in a way you could see the potential of
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