Stories From Marchesi di Barolo Wine Dinner at Lucciola NYC
On Friday, November 6, Lucciola brings this historical winery to the Upper West Side.
Wine Director Alberto Ghezzi selected the lineup:
Bric Amel Langhe Sauvignon
Barbera d'Alba Superiore Peiragal
Barolo Tradizione 2020
Barolo Cannubi 2019
Barolo Coste di Rose 2016
A special back vintage will be revealed during the dinner
Barolo Chinato
Chef Michele Casadei Massari will compose an exclusive six-course tasting menu around the wines.
Kings and Queens Love Barolo
In the first half of the nineteenth century, Juliette Colbert — Giulia di Barolo, the Marchesa who, with her husband Carlo Tancredi Falletti, established the modern winery at Barolo — had 325 small botti delivered to King Carlo Alberto of Savoy. One for each day of the year, minus the forty days of Lent. She was a devout Catholic. She had done the arithmetic on which days the king could, in good conscience, drink.
It is the reason Barolo became il re dei vini, il vino dei re — the king of wines, and the wine of kings. And a very early example of conscious consumption, the subject of half the current conversation in wine. The winery, in that sense, has been making the same argument for two hundred years.
What about today’s VIP clients? Marchesi di Barolo wines were poured at the wedding of Beatrice Borromeo and Pierre Casiraghi of Monaco; Former President Obama tasted this Barolo; George Clooney is a steady client, with bottles sent to him in Los Angeles; and a Marchesa from the 1945 vintage had been sent as a gift to a figure close to the Thai royal family — chosen for his birth year.
The Dinner: Friday, November 6, on the Upper West Side
A single seating in Lucciola’s dining room on Amsterdam Avenue, very exclusive and limited. The format is the tasting menu the restaurant is known for, paired course by course, with the producer at the table. Marchesi di Barolo will narrate stories about their wines and how they produce them, what is important about the soil (in Piedmont, in the North of Italy), and what is changing in their field.
Italy is still their reference market — nearly fifty percent of their turnover is domestic — but the international side has always had a special place, and the United States plays a leading role among their export markets.
Wine, at least for Italians, is part of the culture. Wine, more than any other kind of alcoholic drink, carries with it not just its alcoholic content but, above all, an immense cultural inheritance. When you speak about wine, you are speaking about history, geography, people, emotion, culture.
The winery is more than two hundred years old. In those years we have lived through all kinds of situations, from epidemics to wars, and we have come out of them not only alive but, in the end, victorious. So we must not grow discouraged, and we should remember how many more tools we have today than in the past to meet whatever emergencies come.
Lineup
Bric Amel Langhe Sauvignon
Barbera d'Alba Superiore Peiragal
Barolo Tradizione 2020
Barolo Cannubi 2019
Barolo Coste di Rose 2016
A special back vintage will be revealed during the dinner
Barolo Chinato
Chef Michele Casadei Massari will compose an exclusive six-course tasting menu around the wines.
Date Friday, November 6
Format Wine dinner featuring a surprise back vintage
Featured winery Marchesi di Barolo
Location Lucciola NYC, Amsterdam Avenue, Upper West Side
Price $300 per guest
