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Barbaresco wine vintages: 1911 - 1950

September 10, 2011

1911 Good vintage. Very good wine, of good stuff, a bit hard.

1912 VERY GOOD VINTAGE. Very strong wine, of great stuff, with a strong and balanced scent.

1913 Normal vintage. Quite complete, velvety,strong wine.

1914 Normal vintage. Wine with a good character, and a fine scent.

1915 Bad vintage.

1916 Mediocre vintage. Meagre,acid wine, not intensely colored.

1917 VERY GOOD VINTAGE. Strong, complete wine, with an intense and fine scent

1918 Normal vintage. Vigorous wine, light but fine.

1919 VERY GOOD VINTAGE. Very fine, elegant, complete wine, with a very good and strong character.

1920 Good vintage. Strong and adequatly complete wine, strongly scented.

1921 Normal vintage. Wine with a good character, a fine scent, balanced.

1922 EXTRAORDINARY VINTAGE. Wine of great stuff, complete, balanced, intensely scented, suitable for an extraordinary long life.

1923 Normal vintage. Not very strong wine, though with a good character.

1924 Good vintage. On average strong wine, perfectly balanced.

1925 Excellent vintage. Complete, balanced wine, with a strong character.

1926 Mediocre vintage. Quite strong wine, though hard and disharmonious.

1927 VERY GOOD VINTAGE. Strongly scented, adequately strong wine, with remarkable character.

1928 Normal vintage. Adequatey winy, on average strong, quite fine wine.

1929 VERY GOOD VINTAGE. Poor harvest because of early hailstorms, complete, very strong, balanced wine.

1930 Normal vintage. Quite complete and velvety wine.

1931 EXTRAORDINARY VINTAGE. Velvety wine, with a very good and strong character, exceptionally complete and austere.

1932 Normal vintage. Slightly meagre wine, though fine and elegant.

1933 Bad vintage.

1934 VERY GOOD VINTAGE. Strong, complete, intensely scented wine.

1935 Mediocre vintage. Delicate, with a soft and fading scent.

1936 Normal vintage. Not too strong, but balanced wine.

1937 Good vintage. Quite strong, complete, velvety, fine wine.

1938 Normal vintage. On average strong wine, not strongly but elegantly scented.

1939 Bad vintage.

1940 Mediocre vintage. Weak, meagre, evanescent wine.

1941 Bad vintage.

1942 Normal vintage. Not strong but fine, elegant, velvety wine.

1943 Normal vintage. Quite complete and balanced wine.

1944 Bad vintage

1945 Good vintage. Strong, velvety, intensely scented wine.

1946 Normal vintage. Quite harmonic and elegant wine.

1947 EXTRAORDINARY VINTAGE. Complete, perfectly balancedwine, of pure breed and with a very strong character.

1948 Bad vintage.

1949 Mediocre vintage. Weak wine, with a plain character.

1950 Normal vintage. Quite light, winy, fine wine.

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Massimo Martinelli

I was born near a river, the biggest Italian river, the Po, in a zone where it is already majestic ald solemn. Rivers have been signs and nests for civilisation. To me this is a great cultural honor because the ancient cultures were linked to the rivers, and events in history have often happened on water. Rivers have been ways for transports and commerce, and ideas also; from them I learned that things go, but they don't come back. So I have a "liquid" sensibility, and I strongly prefer wine to water. I intensely study it. Either as a producer, in the Renato Ratti firm in Annunziata di La Morra, in the core of the land of Barolo, or in writing and talking (courses of wine-testing, of cooking); the titles of my books are well-known (perhaps because they are difficult to find): Wine-testing (Quaderni del Museo Ratti dei Vini di Alba 1975), Langhe cooking wine (edizioni Antoroto-Mondovì 1977). I also gather wine labels; my collection is very interesting. It is composed by around fifty thousand labels. In the Langhe, in the land of Barolo I have found a very peaceful life. Massimo Martinelli ------------------------- Sono nato in riva ad un fiume, il più grande fiume d'Italia, il Po, in un punto in cui è già maestoso ed imponente. I fiumi sono stati i segni e le culle della civiltà. Per me ciò costituisce un grande privilegio culturale essendo le antiche civiltà collegate ai fiumi, come le vicende dell'umanità che si sono svolte lungo i corsi d'acqua! I fiumi inoltre hanno permesso rapidità di scambi commerciali e di idee, per questo so che le cose vanno e non ritornano. Ho quindi il senso "liquido" e preferisco decisamente il vino all'acqua. Ad esso infatti mi dedico con accanimento. Sia come produzione, nelle Cantine Renato Ratti all'Annunziata di La Morra, nel cuore del Barolo, sia con scritti o interventi divulgativi (corsi di degustazione, di conoscenza, di cucina), con titoli ormai prestigiosi (anche perché introvabili), quali La degustazione (Quaderni del Museo Ratti dei Vini di Alba 1975), Langhe cucina vino (edizioni Antoroto-Mondovì 1977). Ed ancora raccogliendo le etichette dei vini, oggetto di collezione che può essere considerata fra le più interessanti, con circa 50 mila esemplari. Nelle Langhe, nelle terre del Barolo ho trovato una grande oasi di pace. Massimo Martinelli

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