1st World Congress on Wine Tourism and the Law French noblewoman (1785-1864), a philanthropist and an educator, who is venerated since 2015 by the Catholic Church with the title of Venerable. She belonged to the ancient lineage of French oenological tradition, a discipline that was started by her ancestors some two centuries earlier in the region of Reims, then in the châteaux of Brézé and Maulévrier, in the Loire region. Juliette Colbert, having tasted the wine made on the estate, which at the time was a light, sometimes sparkling wine, sensed its potential despite everything. So let us talk again to Barolo, “Vinum regum, rex vinorum”. Part of success of Barolo was due to King Carlo Alberto of Savoy who, after learning about this new wine, far more structured and full-bodied than the reds of the time, asked the Marquise of Barolo, Giulia, to taste it. The Marquise underwent a major transformation of Barolo, which had previously been a sweet, slightly mellow wine obtained by open-air fermentation: her intervention led to the construction of semi-underground cellars, which created a protected microclimate where the wine could age in a controlled manner, while developing both body and structure. The Falletti di Barolo family sent King Carlo Alberto 325 barrels (known as “carra”), one for each day of the year, excluding the days of Lent, of course. twi mo uel. dF rboemn toh ef e1w2etrh tcheannt ufri vy e, t hF ae l Fl eatltlie ti nt i tt hh ue st op wl a ny ecdo au npcriol .mAi sn emn ut cpho l ai tsi coa tl hreorl eAi snt it hbea nc ikt iyn og f fAa ml b ial .i eI ns , 1t h2 e8 2F, at lhl ee trtei managed to build up a large landed patrimony mainly in two ways: on the one hand, by acquiring allodial property, i.e t a o c .q g i u i n v i r f e u e u ll B p o a t w r h o n e l i e o r r a c s a h n s i d p t l, t e a h s n e , d fi l a e o t f n d te o tr h m e fo s o r a t nh S d e e r r s , r e ba i l y g u n ln e i g o n a r d , i i a n C l g a r s i m g ti h o g t n l s i e o t y n o e t s o e ( l F t o t a l r l e d l e t s t h , t c e o o i ) r m , d B m e e b u n t n e s i v t t e i o e l l s t o h a , e n P F d o a l m l l e le o n t n z ti a o . s , T t B i h c r e a b y , o u Pd s o i e e c d s a p w th a h g e o l f i oa th r ae m n n e d h r a L t d o a MP eot rr ri na o. TFhael l leatttti ef ro lwl oaws ipnl ge da gl eoda nb yo ft hn eo cl eosms mt huanne3o, 0f 0A0l bgao-l dwfhl oi cr hi nhs a. Wd fiot hu nt hdiesds ui tmi notfhme op nr eevyi, ot uh se cme nu tnui cr iyp-a il ni t y1 3w4o0u tl do p(DaeyltBhoe BA.n, gevins to control the communication routes to the Ligurian coast, which were crucial for Alba's trade Dalla città ai castelli: i Falletti di Alba, in La spada e la grazia. Vite di aristocratici subalpini del Trecento subalpino, Torino, Dep. Subalpina Storia Patria, 2011).
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