It’s a long slope that runs roughly north-south and faces east or southeast. You might sense that La Morra is a special wine place when you realize that it’s organized a lot like Burgundy’s Cote d’Or. Ok, now we can break things down in more detail. It also has a high number of famous producers! Oddero, Altare, Voerzio, Ratti and Marcarini all call La Morra home.It has a high number of very famous and highly-rated Barolo sites, such as Brunate, Cerequio, and Rocche del’Annunziata.Its soils are Tortonian, with less limestone and more sand than the other villages, and also a good amount of clay.Of the major villages, it produces the lightest, most aromatic, most elegant wines.Situated in the DOC’s northwest corner, La Morra is the biggest and most productive village in Barolo.Here's the La Morra Breakdown.īefore we hit the details, here’s the key stuff that you really need to know about La Morra: Read on to find out the very important producer who does exactly that. It’s also great as an ingredient for producers that like to blend from different sites – a dash of something lighter and elegant is just the thing for a wine that is otherwise brooding and tannic. That’s great if you like less tannic Barolo that you want to drink at a younger age. It’s also important for the kind of Barolo it produces: more elegant, less structured. This blob produces around 25% of all Barolo. It’s also important because it produces a lot of wine! Look at any map of Barolo’s villages and you’ll see that La Morra is a giant blob taking over the entire northwest corner of the area. La Morra is a very important village! And not just because it’s charming to visit and has a number of top producers and vineyard sites. If you missed Part One, an overview, you can read it here. Then I’ll finish this series with a round-up of all the remaining villages (and there are some biggies there, like Verduno and Novello, so don’t think you can just skip that one!). My plan is to tackle each of these villages in that order, starting today with the elegance of La Morra. There are 11 villages in the Langhe entitled to produce Barolo, but really only five of them are household names – and I’m only talking about those few households where Barolo is a regular drink! You can put these famous names on a spectrum that roughly goes from “elegant” to “structured”.
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