Barbaresco and Barolo are 100% Nebbiolo wines that are easily some of Italy’s best-loved and best-known wines. They are extremely sought after by wine lovers and collectors everywhere because of their intrinsic goodness, their ability to age and improve and their capacity to translate even minor dfferences in terroir to full effect. Even better, winemaking talent is very high across the two areas, and so wine lovers everywhere have an embarassment of riches to choose from. For those who might not yet know too much about these wines, Editor-in-Chief Ian D’Agata takes us through an easy to follow description of some of the basics about these wines.