Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated:
1
00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000
Downloaded from
YTS.MX
2
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.MX
3
00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,380
We brought the real revolution, period
4
00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:39,900
With this new philosophy.
5
00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:43,300
First there was hunger, in '75
I couldn't sell my grapes.
6
00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,980
This is history, I'm not
the one saying it.
7
00:00:45,980 --> 00:00:49,340
I challenge anyone to contradict me,
bring me whoever you like!
8
00:00:50,460 --> 00:00:52,700
There is only one truth, always one!
9
00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:55,300
There's only one history,
not two, not one and a half.
10
00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:57,220
One, period. That one.
11
00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:03,340
Being conceited about your own
generation is a mistake.
12
00:01:03,340 --> 00:01:06,980
You have to have a historic perspective,
and respect all generations.
13
00:01:06,980 --> 00:01:11,300
Today not one of them works together,
14
00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:14,060
that's the nemesis of history.
15
00:01:14,060 --> 00:01:17,540
When you're weak, you pull together,
and it's right to do so.
16
00:01:17,540 --> 00:01:21,100
But now none of them work as a team.
17
00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:23,540
But what are we talking about?
18
00:01:27,518 --> 00:01:29,282
"What are we talking about?"
19
00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:33,388
asks the founder of Slow Food,
slightly angry.
20
00:01:33,388 --> 00:01:37,223
Carlin Petrini is watching
the first version of this movie,
21
00:01:37,223 --> 00:01:39,640
that tells the story
of the Barolo Boys,
22
00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,649
wine producers from the Langhe,
the traditional wine-making region,
23
00:01:43,649 --> 00:01:47,054
north-western Italy,
right on the border of France.
24
00:01:47,595 --> 00:01:50,966
In the eighties and nineties the Barolo
Boys really really spread
25
00:01:50,966 --> 00:01:53,338
the word of Barolo in the world.
26
00:01:53,338 --> 00:01:56,877
Some thought they were revolutionaries,
changing the wine forever.
27
00:01:56,877 --> 00:02:01,823
Others abdicated them to a passing
trend that would be quickly forgotten.
28
00:02:01,823 --> 00:02:04,510
This film will tell the story
of the Barolo Boys,
29
00:02:04,510 --> 00:02:07,692
a legend that is still
shrouded in the fog,
30
00:02:07,692 --> 00:02:12,016
the same fog that gives name to the
grape that creates the great Barolo.
31
00:02:12,016 --> 00:02:16,277
Come with us and take the journey,
it will be full of surprises.
32
00:04:55,030 --> 00:05:00,113
This all amphitheatre , completely
facing south, is called Arborina.
33
00:05:00,113 --> 00:05:05,603
It's split between six winemakers, and
our property is this one, just below us,
34
00:05:05,603 --> 00:05:09,660
and this is our source for the Langhe
Arborina and the Barolo Arborina.
35
00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:12,305
And this plot was planted in 1948
by my grandpa,
36
00:05:12,305 --> 00:05:14,639
so the vines are over 60 years old.
37
00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:19,315
My dad is considered one of the pioneers
of the modern Barolo.
38
00:05:19,315 --> 00:05:24,999
He grow up in an environment that had
been the same for hundreds of years.
39
00:05:24,999 --> 00:05:28,113
We've been farmers and grape-growers
since the 1800's.
40
00:05:28,113 --> 00:05:31,016
Let's go inside, I'll show you the
cellar and tell you more...
41
00:05:32,108 --> 00:05:37,607
And this is the old structure of the
house, where my grandpa had his cellar.
42
00:05:37,607 --> 00:05:40,890
My grandpa had the “botti”,
like four of them,
43
00:05:40,890 --> 00:05:43,682
and half of the cellar was used
for the wine-making.
44
00:05:43,682 --> 00:05:46,948
But than, right in the corner,
he had chickens and cows.
45
00:05:47,436 --> 00:05:51,535
And in that corner he had the engine
to run the heating system,
46
00:05:51,550 --> 00:05:53,934
that was run with gasoline.
47
00:05:55,366 --> 00:05:57,352
Gasoline, chicken shit and winemaking,
48
00:05:57,352 --> 00:05:59,532
that's maybe wine wasn't so successful!
49
00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:20,540
How's it going, are you OK?
50
00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:23,740
Bearing up. I'm here playing the clown.
51
00:06:24,220 --> 00:06:26,380
It's a piece of history!
52
00:06:26,380 --> 00:06:30,740
I don't want to do this stuff any more,
I've done it too many times.
53
00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:34,260
I'm so wordy,
I always say the same things!
54
00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:36,460
I lived through that period,
55
00:06:36,460 --> 00:06:38,860
in those years it was
just about survival,
56
00:06:38,860 --> 00:06:41,300
you couldn't make a profit, there was
no investment, there was nothing.
57
00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:50,700
And until I was 19, in 1969, I was
still plowing with an ox, using animals.
58
00:06:51,220 --> 00:06:54,860
But not just me: everyone.
There were no tractors.
59
00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:58,620
I'm the fifth generation.
A rot, let's say.
60
00:06:58,620 --> 00:07:02,100
Most of the wine was sold unbottled
at that time,
61
00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:04,540
not Barolo, that was already bottled
62
00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:10,260
But most of the other wines were sold
in demijohns, which were sent off.
63
00:07:10,260 --> 00:07:13,420
Only a few were set up
to ferment wine,
64
00:07:13,420 --> 00:07:16,700
they didn't have cellars
with the right containers,
65
00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:19,900
so most of the growers sold
their grapes.
66
00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:25,460
I remember I was working with
a middleman, who called me
67
00:07:25,460 --> 00:07:30,780
and said: "Altare, I've found a buyer
for your grapes".
68
00:07:30,780 --> 00:07:33,780
So I asked: "How much will
you give me for them?"
69
00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:36,780
Answer: "I'll take them
off your hands,
70
00:07:36,780 --> 00:07:39,780
and then we'll talk about
the price next spring".
71
00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:47,540
Can you imagine the frustration,
for a young man of 25?
72
00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:01,900
Check if it's straight, the tie.
73
00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:04,500
It's a little crooked.
74
00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:05,980
Fix it well!
75
00:08:05,980 --> 00:08:08,540
Am I in order? I think I'm in order.
76
00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:14,260
Back then Barolo was ignored,
there were those
77
00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:19,100
five or six businesses
that bought all the grapes.
78
00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:26,380
And then, well... nobody knew Barolo:
You went 10 kilometers from La Morra
79
00:08:26,380 --> 00:08:33,300
and nobody knew
what kind of wine Barolo was.
80
00:08:33,540 --> 00:08:40,300
It wasn't such a simple world,
also because the local people
81
00:08:40,300 --> 00:08:47,100
had never had
a cooperative spirit.
82
00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,340
The Langhetti [people of the
Langhe] were, and perhaps still are,
83
00:08:50,340 --> 00:08:53,060
rather isolated
and individualist.
84
00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:55,060
Every man for himself
85
00:08:55,060 --> 00:08:58,700
The Langhetto is a
closed but dynamic type.
86
00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:04,540
The Langhetto sticks to his culture,
that's the culture.
87
00:09:04,540 --> 00:09:07,260
For 40 years, I don't know
any more how many years,
88
00:09:07,260 --> 00:09:10,300
I went hunting,
I had three or four hounds,
89
00:09:10,780 --> 00:09:14,700
I trained the pallone
elastico team, the game
90
00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:18,500
that's the origin
of the Langhe, no?
91
00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,900
And it gave me great satisfaction!
92
00:09:33,460 --> 00:09:37,060
Already the fact that here
we play pallone elastico is a sign
93
00:09:37,060 --> 00:09:40,780
that the people of the Langhe
have a difficult nature.
94
00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:44,540
The fact that here
they're gamblers is very important,
95
00:09:44,540 --> 00:09:48,260
it means that
they're challengers,
96
00:09:48,260 --> 00:09:59,300
people who love risk, but who also love
travelling, spending what they earn.
97
00:10:04,533 --> 00:10:08,044
The wine my grandpa was making,
and I tell you we still have bottles
98
00:10:08,044 --> 00:10:11,824
still after 50 years it's still arsch
and tannic and dry,
99
00:10:11,824 --> 00:10:14,268
so I can imagine that wine
how it was when he was born,
100
00:10:14,268 --> 00:10:18,548
but my dad always tells me stories of
customers who come to the tasting room,
101
00:10:18,548 --> 00:10:21,008
take a sip and go... puah!
102
00:10:21,008 --> 00:10:25,613
So my dad grow up with this idea:
a wine is only good after 25 years,
103
00:10:25,613 --> 00:10:27,999
that's because its papa wines
were like this.
104
00:10:28,278 --> 00:10:31,506
But then, being the “stupid boy”
of the family,
105
00:10:31,506 --> 00:10:35,645
he started reading books
and he found out about Burgundy.
106
00:10:35,922 --> 00:10:38,793
His papa was like:
“Burgundy? I don't know what that is”,
107
00:10:38,793 --> 00:10:41,823
nobody had been out
of the La Morra borders.
108
00:10:41,823 --> 00:10:47,656
So my dad was smart to take his '500,
his car, in 1977, he drove to Burgundy..
109
00:10:50,948 --> 00:10:52,243
He didn't know where to go.
110
00:10:52,243 --> 00:10:56,504
He was going through the villages
and he saw the sign of Renè Engel,
111
00:10:56,504 --> 00:10:59,544
so he drove into the front-yard
and there was a Porsche,
112
00:10:59,544 --> 00:11:01,755
parked in the front-yard
with the trunk open.
113
00:11:01,755 --> 00:11:05,067
He knocked at the door
and a man holding two suitcases
114
00:11:05,067 --> 00:11:07,281
came out of the door,
and he was Philippe Engel,
115
00:11:07,281 --> 00:11:08,979
and my dad speaks French:
116
00:11:08,979 --> 00:11:12,067
“You know, I'm from Barolo,
can I taste some of your wines?”
117
00:11:12,067 --> 00:11:15,546
And Philippe said “You see,
I'm leaving for the weekend,
118
00:11:15,546 --> 00:11:18,890
that's my car, I'm going to the
Cote d'Azur to sail by boat.
119
00:11:18,890 --> 00:11:20,350
I'm sorry, I don't have time.”
120
00:11:20,740 --> 00:11:24,317
I didn't have money for a hotel and
I was sleeping in my car, he was
121
00:11:24,317 --> 00:11:28,936
driving a Porsche and had a sailboat
in Cannes: a small difference!
122
00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:35,620
We were selling Barolo for 1,000,
1,500 lire [$0.71, $1.07] a bottle.
123
00:11:36,020 --> 00:11:40,380
So my thought was:
Why isn't Barolo being sold?
124
00:11:40,380 --> 00:11:44,300
Why aren't people
drinking Barolo?
125
00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:49,500
There was only one answer:
It was badly interpreted,
126
00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,620
in other words
it didn't bring pleasure.
127
00:11:52,620 --> 00:11:57,100
Winemakers tried to make it maderized.
128
00:11:57,100 --> 00:11:59,340
"This is so good, it
tastes like Marsala!"
129
00:11:59,340 --> 00:12:03,260
Yes, but if I want to drink a good
Marsala I'll buy Marsala, not Barolo.
130
00:12:03,260 --> 00:12:06,900
We had our grandfathers' barrels,
our great-great-grandfathers',
131
00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,460
our uncles' barrels
with enormous woodworms.
132
00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:12,420
When a great wine was produced,
it meant that
133
00:12:12,420 --> 00:12:15,500
nature had had better sense
than the winemaker!
134
00:12:19,020 --> 00:12:21,300
I came, and I come,
from Milan.
135
00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:27,540
So I was a Milanese, a banker,
who came into a Langhetto's winery
136
00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:32,380
not to teach him how to make wine,
but at least how to change something.
137
00:12:32,380 --> 00:12:37,500
I brought the first two barriques
to the Langhe, because at that time
138
00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:42,740
the barrique was a scandal,
really a scandal.
139
00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:47,420
The barrel had to be big and old,
to the point that in the wineries
140
00:12:47,420 --> 00:12:52,220
where I brought these barriques,
they were hidden with cardboard boxes.
141
00:12:52,220 --> 00:12:58,620
All the great wines that were recognized
back then, and still are,
142
00:12:58,620 --> 00:13:04,900
at all latitudes were aged in
this cursed or blessed container.
143
00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:08,380
Why shouldn't we experiment too?
144
00:13:08,380 --> 00:13:11,460
And one Sunday afternoon
I went up to Elio Altare's
145
00:13:11,460 --> 00:13:13,740
and that's when we started
to do all the tests
146
00:13:13,740 --> 00:13:20,460
We had 50-liter fusti made by Taranceau.
Then the feuillette, 114 liters.
147
00:13:20,460 --> 00:13:28,020
The sigarillo,150. The barrique, 225.
And the tonneaux, 350 and 450 liters.
148
00:13:28,020 --> 00:13:32,420
From here, we got the end result
Which is the future?
149
00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:34,020
Which one do you like best?
150
00:13:34,020 --> 00:13:37,900
And in 1983 we began with the barriques.
151
00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,020
I decided to destroy,
to demolish what for my father
152
00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:44,300
was a heritage
accumulated over the years.
153
00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:51,100
There were 10, 15 or 20 vats
of chestnut, of old oak.
154
00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:59,020
It was an affront, and in August he
went to the notary to draw up his will.
155
00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:03,060
He passed away two years later
and he had disinherited me
156
00:14:03,060 --> 00:14:06,540
because he died
convinced that I was crazy.
157
00:14:50,034 --> 00:14:52,553
Now we are in the eighties,
and after the 70's are over,
158
00:14:52,553 --> 00:14:55,971
the world is breathing a new air of
optimism and hope.
159
00:14:56,172 --> 00:14:58,497
People are full of lightness
and well-being.
160
00:14:59,730 --> 00:15:03,819
Consumerism is on the rise
and old ideologies are crumbling.
161
00:15:04,289 --> 00:15:06,506
Families are investing
in the stock market
162
00:15:06,506 --> 00:15:09,432
as America elects an actor to president.
163
00:15:10,774 --> 00:15:14,772
Italy is experiencing a small
but significant economic boom.
164
00:15:14,772 --> 00:15:17,580
People are enjoying the
victory of the World Cup
165
00:15:18,715 --> 00:15:25,329
and a new Dolce Vita is being
broadcasted to private TV stations.
166
00:15:27,187 --> 00:15:31,540
The fall of the Berlin wall
ends a decade of high hopes.
167
00:15:34,503 --> 00:15:37,381
The wind of change is blowing
everywhere, even in the Langhe,
168
00:15:37,381 --> 00:15:40,463
where everything is ready
for a radical change.
169
00:15:40,463 --> 00:15:43,909
Our small producers are
the right people at the right time:
170
00:15:43,909 --> 00:15:48,402
they are young, ambitious,
hungry and ready to take on the world.
171
00:15:48,402 --> 00:15:52,239
They want to leave behind the tradition
of agricoltural poverty
172
00:15:52,239 --> 00:15:54,454
but they don't want to leave
their beloved land.
173
00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:57,107
Something incredible is about to happen:
174
00:15:57,107 --> 00:16:02,369
after centuries of stagnation,
nothing will ever be the same again.
175
00:16:23,540 --> 00:16:30,740
You used to leave everything.
And you made a lot of table wine.
176
00:16:38,980 --> 00:16:41,300
Look here.
177
00:16:44,260 --> 00:16:50,540
I didn't want to. I'm sorry
to see these grapes on the ground.
178
00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:54,980
But...
179
00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:58,460
they're in charge!
180
00:17:08,260 --> 00:17:10,780
Here you're going over
where he's already been.
181
00:17:10,780 --> 00:17:17,540
Yes, I'll take a few more out, because
in some places he's still left too many.
182
00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:24,340
Now if you go around the wineries
they all consider it normal.
183
00:17:24,340 --> 00:17:29,620
But I remember the neighboring vineyard
owner called my father to tell him
184
00:17:29,620 --> 00:17:34,980
that, well, I had gone mad
and was doing something really terrible.
185
00:17:34,980 --> 00:17:42,780
There was this absurdity,
that thinning out should be hidden
186
00:17:42,780 --> 00:17:49,900
from the others, because it seemed
like an act almost of contempt.
187
00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:54,100
The reasoning was very simple.
We started to read
188
00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:58,220
some of the first wine publications
and the legendary wine was French.
189
00:17:58,220 --> 00:18:03,340
Here we said: "How do
they make such a sought-after wine,
190
00:18:03,340 --> 00:18:08,100
with a price that's 10, 15
or 20 times higher than ours?!
191
00:18:28,060 --> 00:18:32,540
I did it early in the morning,
while my father was still asleep.
192
00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:36,020
Usually he came to the vineyard later,
so this time I didn't realize
193
00:18:36,020 --> 00:18:39,260
that he'd arrived, plus I was intent on
my task of thinning out the grapes.
194
00:18:39,260 --> 00:18:44,900
At a certain point I heard cursing,
a swearword, then he said:
195
00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:50,220
"I've been pruning for 70 years,
and you're teaching me how to prune!"
196
00:18:50,740 --> 00:18:58,620
He threw the scissors at my feet.
He never set foot in the vineyard again.
197
00:18:58,980 --> 00:19:02,860
The two things, in other words
changing to newer barrels
198
00:19:02,860 --> 00:19:06,900
and producing fewer grapes in order
to have riper fruit and a richer wine
199
00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:12,780
began to be put together during
the '85, '86 and '87 harvests.
200
00:19:12,780 --> 00:19:15,700
Those were the first
vintages done in this way.
201
00:19:16,235 --> 00:19:18,235
MARCH 1986
HUNT FOR TOXIC WINE
202
00:19:18,535 --> 00:19:21,335
DEAD AFTER 26 DAYS, POISONED BY WINE
203
00:19:23,260 --> 00:19:26,620
And now we come to the story
of the wine containing
204
00:19:26,620 --> 00:19:29,740
toxic substances, which
has caused three deaths in Milan.
205
00:19:29,740 --> 00:19:34,380
TOXIC WINE KILLS AGAIN
What had happened? There were winemakers
206
00:19:34,380 --> 00:19:38,500
MORE BAD PUBLICITY FOR ITALIAN WINE
who were not honest, who were dealers.
207
00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:41,595
WHO IS PLOTTING AGAINS WINE?
They had cut the wine with methanol,
208
00:19:41,595 --> 00:19:44,900
A POISONED CLIMATE.
which is toxic and harmful,
209
00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:48,360
SHOCK AND RAGE
and this created the problem.
210
00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:52,020
After this scandal,
the approach changed
211
00:19:52,020 --> 00:19:55,540
and the focus switched
to producing quality wines
212
00:19:55,540 --> 00:20:01,780
The methanol scandal in 1986
was the launch pad for me.
213
00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:07,300
Thanks to this scandal, we all rolled
up our sleeves, we began working
214
00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:12,620
as a team and, not knowing how to
interpret the wine, we did experiments.
215
00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:17,500
Then we compared the different
experiments and the sample of wine
216
00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:22,420
or the bottle that was
judged the best was revealed.
217
00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:26,020
So it was all tasted strictly blind,
and the winemaker who had made the wine
218
00:20:26,020 --> 00:20:29,540
explained to the others what he had
done in the vineyard and in the winery.
219
00:20:29,540 --> 00:20:32,100
And so things grew quickly.
220
00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:34,900
These might be things
you've already heard or that
221
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,460
someone has already told
you, but it's the truth.
222
00:20:37,460 --> 00:20:41,780
If a winemaker is working alone,
without hearing the experiences
223
00:20:41,780 --> 00:20:45,900
of other producers, he has 40
or 50 vintages in his lifetime.
224
00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:50,620
But if you have 10 winemakers who work
with the same intensity, the same
225
00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:54,900
dedication and the same philosophy
in the vineyard and in the winery
226
00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:57,860
with different experiences,
and you put them together,
227
00:20:57,860 --> 00:21:00,380
you will start rising
in quality very quickly.
228
00:21:00,620 --> 00:21:05,100
We met as a group of friends almost
every week, two or three times a week.
229
00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:14,100
There was this tension of searching
for greater quality, an insane quality.
230
00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:17,060
We really wanted to make the
best wine in the world!
231
00:21:17,060 --> 00:21:22,460
How many times did we found
ourselves here, around this table
232
00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:27,620
tasting wines,
maybe eating something.
233
00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:34,860
I have a wonderful memory of those
years, for this kind of comradeship.
234
00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:54,780
People of Carlin Petrini's
community, I urge you to
235
00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:58,900
approach the offerings
with humility and moderation!
236
00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:08,100
This was the Langa miracle.
237
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,260
This is all volcanic, see?
238
00:23:57,260 --> 00:23:59,780
A lava flow from 1947.
239
00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:02,700
The first plant to become
established and which
240
00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:05,900
manages to break the basalt
with its roots is broom.
241
00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:12,060
Then other plants establish themselves
in the holes made by the broom.
242
00:24:12,060 --> 00:24:18,060
Look at this stuff! In another two
or three centuries there'll be
243
00:24:18,060 --> 00:24:24,100
a new terroir here, because this is
an extraordinary thing about Etna.
244
00:24:26,460 --> 00:24:30,100
This fertility for example does't
exist south or east of the volcano
245
00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:33,780
because there's more
volcanic sand in the soil there.
246
00:24:33,780 --> 00:24:39,100
Here there's volcanic ash
mixed with volcanic stone.
247
00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:50,860
Shall I open it?
248
00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:13,100
A Barolo Boys soccer ball! I didn't know
they made soccer balls too.
249
00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:17,260
At a certain point this term
came about, Barolo Boys
250
00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:20,780
which referred to
a group of winemakers.
251
00:25:20,780 --> 00:25:26,780
"Boys" because they were in fact
all young, and because they were
252
00:25:26,780 --> 00:25:32,700
all male and I was the
"one girl" who joined them later.
253
00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:36,780
Have you ever heard
this expression "Barolo Boys"?
254
00:25:36,780 --> 00:25:40,540
Have you read about it?
Do you know who they are?
255
00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:46,900
Well, I've read something
but I don't know who they are.
256
00:25:48,620 --> 00:25:51,540
I think they also have
a soccer team, no?
257
00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,060
Let's go back a little.
258
00:26:20,060 --> 00:26:24,780
This movement started as a
movement of aggregation, 'cause I think
259
00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:29,100
that all revolutions are started on
empty bellies, when there is real need.
260
00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:31,380
We were in total poverty.
261
00:26:31,380 --> 00:26:35,340
Yes, it was experienced a bit
as a revolutionary movement,
262
00:26:35,340 --> 00:26:39,340
which maybe it wasn't,
but a little bit yes.
263
00:26:39,340 --> 00:26:44,780
It brought enormous change
to the whole history of the Langhe.
264
00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:48,900
You can't argue with it,
you can't... it's there, it's history.
265
00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:53,900
We can say that the actual Barolo Boys
name was linked to a group of winemakers
266
00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:58,380
who were marketed by Marco de Grazia,
particularly on the American market.
267
00:26:58,380 --> 00:27:07,740
When Marco de Grazia joined this group
he was a young American... clueless!
268
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:19,380
Most of the winemakers saw this guy
arrive, a bit of a weirdo, and it
269
00:27:19,380 --> 00:27:26,100
took some courage to trust him and put
all of our wineries in his hands!
270
00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:38,740
I had graduated in literature with
a specialization in Classical Greek.
271
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:44,740
I would never ever have imagined
that it would become a serious job.
272
00:27:44,740 --> 00:27:47,500
It's not like I said to myself:
273
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,260
Now I'm going to start looking
for clients around the world
274
00:27:50,260 --> 00:27:54,700
I didn't even know how to look for them!
I was excited about the wine.
275
00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:59,380
This thing exploded in our hands.
Then...
276
00:28:07,494 --> 00:28:11,344
The Barolo Boys conquer America:
who would ever thought?
277
00:28:11,344 --> 00:28:13,480
Well, it happened
and I remember it well.
278
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,230
In the nineties, American consumers
were no longer happy
279
00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:19,507
with eating spaghetti meatballs
and drinking Chianti classico,
280
00:28:19,507 --> 00:28:22,375
they were looking for luxury
and authentic experiences,
281
00:28:22,375 --> 00:28:26,243
for a real italian food
and great italian wine.
282
00:28:26,523 --> 00:28:29,845
The Barolo Boys didn't even speack
English, they had never left
283
00:28:29,845 --> 00:28:33,293
their beloved Langhe before,
but they were becoming stars:
284
00:28:33,293 --> 00:28:37,693
the new style Barolo trend they created
was hip, the bottles were expansive,
285
00:28:38,034 --> 00:28:40,280
rare and sold at high prices.
286
00:28:40,498 --> 00:28:46,052
In those years, in my restaurants,
tastemakers, artists, Hollywood stars
287
00:28:46,052 --> 00:28:49,922
and even finance world wanted
to drink the "new Barolo".
288
00:28:49,922 --> 00:28:53,524
For our protagonists it's a moment
of pure magic,
289
00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:57,550
the future seems so bright and their
destiny is unstoppable.
290
00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:18,700
It was the first time that
this group of winemakers,
291
00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:23,020
small-scale producers, farmers
had gone to meet the clients,
292
00:29:23,020 --> 00:29:26,900
restaurateurs, wine shop owners
and importers in America.
293
00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:31,100
There was enthusiasm, there was this
great enthusiasm because you were
294
00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:35,100
seeing a new world, you were presenting
new things, and it was important.
295
00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:38,060
You felt privileged,
and in the end you were.
296
00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:41,260
Being of American origin,
he led this group
297
00:29:41,260 --> 00:29:44,460
to discover America,
in the real sense of the word.
298
00:29:44,460 --> 00:29:47,460
Because the fact is, if you stay at home
you could be
299
00:29:47,460 --> 00:29:50,300
the best winemaker in the
world and nobody will know.
300
00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:55,100
In this they were revolutionary,
because they brought courage, which is
301
00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:57,740
the characteristic
closest to my heart and
302
00:29:57,740 --> 00:30:00,540
which recently has been
lacking here in Italy.
303
00:30:00,540 --> 00:30:03,900
I followed them from a distance because
at the time I was doing a different job
304
00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:07,260
but I liked the wine and I was
interested in it, having been born here
305
00:30:07,260 --> 00:30:10,460
and I very much liked hearing
about their exploits:
306
00:30:10,460 --> 00:30:13,620
they left with little means, together,
and went around the world.
307
00:30:13,620 --> 00:30:20,220
We rented two big minibuses,
I was the driver, maybe because
308
00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:26,620
I was the youngest, so I was driving.
And it was like a school trip, ok?
309
00:30:44,340 --> 00:30:49,100
When we got to California
a client of ours made this T-shirts
310
00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:53,500
saying Barolo Boys,
and that's where the name came from.
311
00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:58,540
A good team, right?
312
00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:08,100
Everything was taken seriously, but
there was also a studenty, fun side.
313
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:13,500
Perhaps also as a kind of defense,
for the fact that we felt 10,000 kms
314
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,980
from home, because of this too we felt
like a team, we were laughing and joking
315
00:31:18,980 --> 00:31:23,740
And you could see and understand it from
far away: you could see a close group,
316
00:31:23,740 --> 00:31:27,700
like a group of old friends going
around together, or going on holiday.
317
00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:31,060
It was the same thing.
318
00:31:31,060 --> 00:31:38,740
We were kind of the rebel boys.
So they called us "the Barolo Boys".
319
00:31:45,779 --> 00:31:48,914
This wine is an interesting wine
because it comes
320
00:31:48,914 --> 00:31:51,430
from a wine producer
called Giorgio Rivetti.
321
00:31:51,430 --> 00:31:57,105
He uses 100% new wood, french oak,
so you do get a little bit of vanilla
322
00:31:57,105 --> 00:32:00,521
and almost a chocolate character,
that I really like in Nebbiolo.
323
00:32:00,755 --> 00:32:02,477
Coffee character.
324
00:32:07,493 --> 00:32:08,274
Wow!
325
00:32:11,060 --> 00:32:14,620
The real revolution of the Barolo Boys,
the insight they had
326
00:32:14,620 --> 00:32:18,300
was to make wines that
were cleaner and more modern.
327
00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:22,060
The critics naturally went crazy for
these wines, and the reason was simple:
328
00:32:22,060 --> 00:32:25,740
Previously there were
very few interesting Barolos.
329
00:32:25,740 --> 00:32:29,620
They came along
with significant innovations
330
00:32:29,620 --> 00:32:33,620
and both the dominant American critics
Wine Spectator and Robert Parker
331
00:32:33,620 --> 00:32:39,060
and the emerging Italian critics,
like Slow Food and Gambero Rosso's
332
00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:44,100
Vini d'Italia guide, found an important
point of reference in these wines.
333
00:32:44,420 --> 00:32:50,620
The merit of this guide was
the descriptive aspect.
334
00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:55,380
The same publication also
offered critical judgments.
335
00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:59,980
If you got the Tre Bicchieri award
in the 1990s, you doubled the price
336
00:32:59,980 --> 00:33:04,420
of your wine, you could plant an hectare
of vines and recoup the investment.
337
00:33:04,420 --> 00:33:06,060
It changed the economics of a winery,
338
00:33:06,060 --> 00:33:11,980
It was... I don't know,
like receiving an Oscar for an actor,
339
00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:17,260
It was the same emotion for a winemaker
to receive the Tre Bicchieri.
340
00:33:17,260 --> 00:33:24,340
Chiara Boschis was the first winery,
everyone says it, but this is the truth,
341
00:33:24,340 --> 00:33:31,340
to make Barolo Cannubi
with 100% new barriques.
342
00:33:31,340 --> 00:33:34,100
I did that,
in the Chiara Boschis winery.
343
00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:37,900
It was the only '94 Barolo
to receive the Tre Bicchieri.
344
00:33:38,460 --> 00:33:43,380
These wines arrived that were
fruit bombs, scented, and obviously
345
00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:47,900
people liked them, because
they were good, they were better!
346
00:34:11,780 --> 00:34:18,060
I think that their principal merit,
the reason behind their success
347
00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:24,020
was creating a new taste
thanks to the barrique.
348
00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:29,100
A more powerful flavor, more refined,
fuller, rounder, let's say
349
00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:34,420
that was, and is, very popular with
the Americans. With the "judges".
350
00:34:34,420 --> 00:34:37,620
The wine was made in a certain way so
that Parker had to give it 100 points.
351
00:34:37,620 --> 00:34:40,900
"Shit, you have to make a wine
like this to get the Tre Bicchieri!"
352
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:44,700
So during the harvest, when I turned on
the pressing machine, I knew the results
353
00:34:44,700 --> 00:34:48,220
I wanted because I had already
tasted all the 100-point wines.
354
00:34:48,220 --> 00:34:57,980
Sure, if I had bought 10 barriques I
would have conquered the market faster.
355
00:34:57,980 --> 00:35:01,340
Come on, there's no doubt!
356
00:35:02,420 --> 00:35:05,740
When a magazine like Wine Spectator
gives 100 points to the
357
00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:08,980
Barolo and Barbaresco 2000 vintage,
it's an important sign.
358
00:35:08,980 --> 00:35:11,420
It still hasn't given 100 points
to the Bordeauxs,
359
00:35:11,420 --> 00:35:13,620
but it gave 100 points
to Barolo and Barbaresco.
360
00:35:14,060 --> 00:35:19,300
And most of the wines considered
belonged to these modernists.
361
00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:27,700
The success of those years
was an explosive phenomenon.
362
00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:36,700
In 10 years more money came into the
Langhe than in the whole century.
363
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,620
That was a really cool moment!
364
00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:43,540
It was fashion,
it was also a bit of glamour,
365
00:35:43,540 --> 00:35:47,100
finally a bit of glamour
for the farmers.
366
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,780
How great was that!
367
00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:57,420
They had success around the world
during those years... Hurrah for them!
368
00:36:32,540 --> 00:36:37,540
Bartolo Mascarello from Barolo
and Elio Altare from La Morra.
369
00:36:38,126 --> 00:36:41,492
In this vintage video we see the two
main charachters of our battle
370
00:36:41,492 --> 00:36:43,067
in the history of Barolo:
371
00:36:43,067 --> 00:36:48,168
Elio Altare , leader of the "modernists"
of Barolo, and Bartolo Mascarello,
372
00:36:48,168 --> 00:36:52,494
a partisan, a friend of writers and
philosophers and an iconic symbol
373
00:36:52,494 --> 00:36:54,674
of traditional Barolo winemaking.
374
00:36:54,674 --> 00:36:58,265
They are friends and they have mutual
respect for each other,
375
00:36:58,265 --> 00:37:01,133
but do not let this friendship
deceive you.
376
00:37:01,133 --> 00:37:06,207
At the end of the nineties in the Langhe
this two opposing visions collide
377
00:37:06,207 --> 00:37:08,968
and the world of Barolo
will never be the same.
378
00:37:08,968 --> 00:37:11,991
Innovators versus traditionalists,
379
00:37:11,991 --> 00:37:15,541
rebellious sons and patriarchs
who don't want to abdicate.
380
00:37:15,605 --> 00:37:23,187
When the young guys like Elio
Altare came along, we said:
381
00:37:23,187 --> 00:37:26,649
Justy as well, there are young people
who are staying to work the land.
382
00:37:26,649 --> 00:37:32,253
What we were sorry about is
that to learn how to make
383
00:37:32,253 --> 00:37:37,117
the wine of our hills,
Elio Altare went to France.
384
00:37:37,117 --> 00:37:39,023
Were there no alternatives?
385
00:37:39,023 --> 00:37:42,422
The tabloids, the media are all buzzing
about this epic battle
386
00:37:42,422 --> 00:37:44,594
between new style
and traditional Barolo.
387
00:37:44,770 --> 00:37:48,280
After a period of many victories
and triumphs, for the first time
388
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,062
the Barolo Boys are under attack
and being accused
389
00:37:51,062 --> 00:37:54,177
of distorting and ruining
the identity of their land,
390
00:37:54,177 --> 00:37:57,929
of compromising the identity of Barolo
that gives birth to their movement.
391
00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:04,060
When I saw the first modern wines,
which however weren't Elio Altare's,
392
00:38:04,060 --> 00:38:10,100
they had a different color and scent
My God, I said to myself.
393
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:14,740
Poetry is fine
but it doesn't fill your belly.
394
00:38:14,740 --> 00:38:17,060
In 20 years someone will ask
my daughters: "Are barriques a trend?"
395
00:38:17,060 --> 00:38:19,460
And they'll answer:"No, 'cause
my father was already using them."
396
00:38:19,460 --> 00:38:24,780
It will become tradition. So
tradition is a successful innovation.
397
00:38:24,780 --> 00:38:26,420
It's not true!
398
00:38:26,420 --> 00:38:27,780
It's just not true.
399
00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:33,100
At a certain point the issue arose
because winemakers who didn't mince
400
00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:38,540
words started to say that the old-style
wines were disgusting and stank.
401
00:38:38,540 --> 00:38:40,500
It's true that there
were defective wines.
402
00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:44,540
At a certain point a kind of war
really broke out which
403
00:38:44,540 --> 00:38:48,300
made everyone conform to the same line,
so now you can't say anything any more.
404
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:53,260
But now I would like to say at that
time our wines were much better.
405
00:38:53,260 --> 00:38:57,740
The aggression was towards us,
it's not that
406
00:38:57,740 --> 00:39:02,100
we attacked the traditionalists,
not at all.
407
00:39:02,100 --> 00:39:06,500
It might be that someone
put on airs given the success
408
00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:11,420
but that's just
human nature.
409
00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:17,460
What had happened? This new movement
was, as it were, don't misunderstand me
410
00:39:17,460 --> 00:39:23,060
"eating away" at the previous
knowledge about Barolo production.
411
00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:31,620
But... all generations
have this incredible vanity,
412
00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:38,740
they become conceited, thinking
that they've reinvented the wheel
413
00:39:38,740 --> 00:39:46,300
when instead you have to
go back to the origin of things.
414
00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:51,060
Being conceited about
your own generation is a mistake.
415
00:39:51,060 --> 00:39:54,340
You have to have a historic perspective,
and respect all generations.
416
00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:58,700
You have to go slowly to change
the world and make Barolo,
417
00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:02,900
because you risk not making it as good
as they made it a long time ago.
418
00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:06,620
They copied me and wine producer
Angelo Gaja, OK?
419
00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:12,380
We were the ones that set off,
that was the real push.
420
00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:16,100
A Langhetto tends to say:
"It's always thanks to me!"
421
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:19,100
At the start they might be a bit
hesitant, but then when you get to
422
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:22,100
the point you hear: "It's thanks
to me","No, it's thanks to me!"
423
00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:24,460
In terms of credit I would
start from way back.
424
00:40:24,460 --> 00:40:28,460
Without the talented greats, these Boys
would have been just screwing around!
425
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:31,540
Enough, it's stuff
from 20 years ago!
426
00:40:31,540 --> 00:40:36,860
We're really Italians, we go on and
on... always saying the same things.
427
00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:45,340
So: The 1990s were a kind of... bubble.
There was a huge need for wine
428
00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:49,220
made in a certain way,
over there in the U.S.
429
00:40:49,220 --> 00:40:53,260
It was just a question
of following the market.
430
00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:59,100
Marc de Grazia followed the market.
Let's get this in our head: the market!
431
00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:04,100
It's not that there was
a market shouting: "We want Barolo!"
432
00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,980
No, absolutely not.
433
00:41:07,507 --> 00:41:10,598
I remember, when I was in London,
early 2000
434
00:41:10,598 --> 00:41:14,798
Mr. Marc de Grazia came to visit me,
he showed me his wines
435
00:41:14,798 --> 00:41:17,273
and I can remember there was
one common thing:
436
00:41:17,273 --> 00:41:18,990
they were all totally smoked in oak.
437
00:41:18,990 --> 00:41:22,191
Where are these wines going?
What do they represent?
438
00:41:22,191 --> 00:41:25,402
They're just impressive, blockbusters.
439
00:41:25,402 --> 00:41:31,905
For me Nebbiolo is a grape that has
this beautiful capacity to age,
440
00:41:31,905 --> 00:41:33,638
elegantly, and to evolve.
441
00:41:33,638 --> 00:41:37,119
Isn't that part of the joy of Barolo?
442
00:42:03,260 --> 00:42:05,740
I already told Chiara:
443
00:42:07,620 --> 00:42:12,060
"The Barolo your dad
used to make was better."
444
00:42:15,540 --> 00:42:20,780
In the past, when there was
a big barrel that gave that
445
00:42:20,780 --> 00:42:25,620
barrique flavor, they would
break it up immediately.
446
00:42:25,620 --> 00:42:31,020
You didn't sell that wine, you had
to take it to the distillery!
447
00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:36,780
Now they're using those barriques!
448
00:43:18,780 --> 00:43:20,900
This isn't ours
449
00:43:23,780 --> 00:43:27,900
At times I think that
if Bartolo was still around
450
00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:32,420
he would in some ways
enjoy the payback
451
00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:36,380
after the squabbling,
sometimes serious,
452
00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:40,740
between the traditionalists
and the modernists,
453
00:43:41,060 --> 00:43:45,540
because in my opinion
I think I can see that
454
00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:49,900
the wines of the traditionalists,
made with longer macerations,
455
00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:58,540
big barrels, longer aging in wood
are now getting their revenge.
456
00:44:05,540 --> 00:44:11,340
The oldest Barolos that
I've drunk, from the 1940s,
457
00:44:11,340 --> 00:44:17,420
are today absolutely
sound and excellent
458
00:44:17,420 --> 00:44:22,500
so it seems a bit rash to claim
that the history of Barolo
459
00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:26,620
was written by the modernists.
460
00:44:37,220 --> 00:44:43,060
I think that in the area some
wines have been made that
461
00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:48,780
are very far from the real identity
of Nebbiolo grapes.
462
00:44:48,780 --> 00:44:53,980
What is identity? Is it something
that remains stuck, when?
463
00:44:53,980 --> 00:44:59,540
10 years ago?
20? 50? 100?
464
00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:02,900
It's people who decide
to set the rules
465
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:05,900
and guidelines that say:
"This thing is typical".
466
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:09,100
But they're just interpretations.
467
00:45:09,100 --> 00:45:16,900
I think that Barolo should remain
a difficult wine, austere, severe,
468
00:45:16,900 --> 00:45:24,220
with its at times aggressive tannins
and an immediate lack of pleasantness.
469
00:45:24,540 --> 00:45:29,100
Great wines are always good,
not just after 20 years.
470
00:45:29,100 --> 00:45:34,260
You get married and you enjoy the
marriage, you don't wait 20 or 30 years!
471
00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:39,020
The same with wine: It should be good
immediately and after 20 years, or 50?
472
00:45:39,020 --> 00:45:41,780
You know, the concept of good...
473
00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:43,900
Chinotto (Italian bitter-orange soda)
is very different from Coca Cola,
474
00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:46,220
but I think it's better.
475
00:45:46,220 --> 00:45:50,020
It might be that when you put
Coca Cola in your mouth it's tastier.
476
00:45:50,020 --> 00:45:55,260
Now, I don't want to say
that the modernists' Barolo is Coca Cola
477
00:45:55,260 --> 00:46:00,340
and the traditionalists' is Chinotto!
478
00:46:00,340 --> 00:46:03,420
Unfortunately those ones,
let's call them traditionalists,
479
00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:07,100
without praise and without blame,
480
00:46:07,100 --> 00:46:10,900
they didn't understand
that you could have a wine that
481
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:14,540
was fruity and ready immediately
that could also age.
482
00:46:14,540 --> 00:46:17,460
The argument was:
If the wine is so ready now,
483
00:46:17,460 --> 00:46:20,100
that means it's already finished,
that it can't age.
484
00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:23,420
Everyone said: "Ah, these modern
wines won't hold up, after five years
485
00:46:23,420 --> 00:46:26,540
they'll collapse, they'll
no longer taste of anything".
486
00:46:26,540 --> 00:46:31,260
Well, no, it's not true. It's not true!
487
00:46:33,248 --> 00:46:34,746
They stay forever young!
488
00:46:34,746 --> 00:46:37,787
I don't want a wine that stays forever
young and is propped up
489
00:46:37,787 --> 00:46:39,914
by whataver is being made with.
490
00:46:39,914 --> 00:46:43,265
I want a wine to reflect a natural
evolution from that grape, that wine,
491
00:46:43,265 --> 00:46:47,710
that vineyard and that village.
492
00:46:47,990 --> 00:46:51,267
That is the beauty,
it's in the evolution.
493
00:46:51,267 --> 00:46:53,833
Why should I want to drink a wine
that is the same when is born
494
00:46:53,833 --> 00:46:55,807
and the same when it dies?
495
00:46:56,221 --> 00:46:58,788
In my opinion,
modern Barolo doesn't exist!
496
00:47:04,231 --> 00:47:07,216
I've talked about it with my family.
We talk about it.
497
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:12,300
If you want to radically change
style, I'm for it, why not?
498
00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:16,420
But Elio Altare has
to disappear from the label.
499
00:47:16,420 --> 00:47:20,620
I don't want
to betray my knowledge.
500
00:47:20,620 --> 00:47:28,060
I don't want to betray my creed,
because after all it is a creed,
501
00:47:29,860 --> 00:47:34,300
I used barrique and I continue
to use barrique, period.
502
00:47:36,980 --> 00:47:44,500
The crucial element is the evolution
of taste. I no longer identify with
503
00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:48,300
the parameters that have
defined the opinions
504
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:52,300
and scores of our guides
for a decade.
505
00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:58,460
What does it mean? That my taste has
evolved too. It's the nature of things.
506
00:47:58,460 --> 00:48:03,300
Wine journalism has changed
tack and has turned
507
00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:08,460
towards tastes that are
a little more traditional.
508
00:48:08,460 --> 00:48:11,460
So many winemakers are
to some extent renouncing
509
00:48:11,460 --> 00:48:14,620
what they've done in order
to follow this situation.
510
00:48:14,620 --> 00:48:19,980
But I'll tell you honestly: These
winemakers were never the real players.
511
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:24,460
I've always been classified
as a Modernist,
512
00:48:24,460 --> 00:48:28,620
as one of them
who made the revolution,
513
00:48:28,620 --> 00:48:32,500
but I never took some radical
positions, 'cause maybe in 20-30 years
514
00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:36,340
we will discover
these positions were wrong,
515
00:48:36,340 --> 00:48:41,420
then who will tell people:
"Sorry, your bottles are undrinkable".
516
00:48:41,420 --> 00:48:46,700
"Who will tell them:
"Sorry, we made a mistake"?
517
00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:49,980
We went on to the end
of '97 using only barriques,
518
00:48:49,980 --> 00:48:52,980
then from '98 we expanded
the winery and we again
519
00:48:52,980 --> 00:48:55,780
bought barrels of 12,15,20
and 25 hectoliters.
520
00:48:56,457 --> 00:49:00,051
Roberto Voerzio has
a big barrel since 2008 vintage,
521
00:49:00,051 --> 00:49:05,255
Vietti has got them, Chiara Boschis
has got them, they're all getting them!
522
00:49:05,255 --> 00:49:08,552
So where this movement has gone?
Nowhere!
523
00:49:08,785 --> 00:49:09,953
It was just a boom!
524
00:49:10,380 --> 00:49:12,780
The group broke up.
525
00:49:13,260 --> 00:49:20,620
Individual natures prevailed and so
everyone tried to make their own path.
526
00:49:20,620 --> 00:49:25,460
Jealousies have emerged when
these stories erupted:
527
00:49:25,460 --> 00:49:29,980
the guides, the prizes,
the 100 points, the 200 points.
528
00:49:29,980 --> 00:49:33,500
This is it. I could say even a little
bit... (italian gesture for money)
529
00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:45,020
The fact that I have decided
to create a winery here
530
00:49:45,020 --> 00:49:49,420
is also a normal consequence of that.
531
00:49:49,420 --> 00:49:51,780
Let's say it's natural, no?
532
00:49:51,780 --> 00:49:55,900
Here again I'm helping
the whole area, the territory
533
00:49:55,900 --> 00:50:00,100
and such a thing is happening,
so now I know how it will end,
534
00:50:02,020 --> 00:50:08,540
I can already see the seeds of glory,
and at the same time, in the
535
00:50:08,540 --> 00:50:15,100
same glory you can already see
the signs of future disintegration.
536
00:50:16,100 --> 00:50:18,100
It's awesome!
537
00:50:20,020 --> 00:50:25,900
And this gives you an awareness of the
human being, of what human nature is.
538
00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:32,380
Today not one of them works together.
That's the nemesis of history.
539
00:50:32,380 --> 00:50:35,900
Just as the big traditionalists
overshadowed them,
540
00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:39,740
now they are overshadowing
the young ones!
541
00:50:39,740 --> 00:50:43,500
Perhaps they haven't realized it yet,
but that's how it is!
542
00:50:51,020 --> 00:50:56,100
... six, seven, eight...
four and four, eight, OK!
543
00:51:01,740 --> 00:51:06,780
It's not easy to deal
with such important fathers.
544
00:51:06,780 --> 00:51:11,780
Yes, I can decide to sell the wine
in Ireland, where previously we didn't
545
00:51:11,780 --> 00:51:16,260
sell it, but for many things
there's no possibility to choose, zero.
546
00:51:16,260 --> 00:51:20,620
However flexible Elio was 40 years ago,
now life is coming
547
00:51:20,620 --> 00:51:24,780
full circle and he is turning into
what his father was.
548
00:51:30,740 --> 00:51:33,340
"No, you don't do that",
"No, I always did it like this"
549
00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:36,100
"We've always done
well like this!"
550
00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:42,060
Sometimes I stop myself from arguing
because I know there's no chance
551
00:51:42,060 --> 00:51:47,860
for discussion, the decision has been
made and there's no other possibility.
552
00:53:01,780 --> 00:53:07,780
I'm a romantic and so I look
at those years with great affection,
553
00:53:07,780 --> 00:53:13,700
and with a pinch of nostalgia,
because they were wonderful years.
554
00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:19,780
Not just because we were all younger,
but because we had this power
555
00:53:19,780 --> 00:53:25,500
to change things, which is
the best feeling you can have in life.
556
00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:35,420
Stay young forever.
Advice from a friend.
557
00:53:51,620 --> 00:53:54,380
She was Miss World...
now she's still Miss World!
558
00:53:54,380 --> 00:53:58,540
Because "A little woman is
still always a good woman"
559
00:54:41,300 --> 00:54:47,300
This is good. It's right at the limit,
you see it's already starting to bleed?
560
00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:50,100
That means the grape
is perfectly ripe
561
00:55:10,900 --> 00:55:15,620
It's worth asking: What revolution
has ever been successful?
562
00:55:15,620 --> 00:55:20,620
I think the influence was enormous.
Enormous!
563
00:55:20,860 --> 00:55:26,100
Are we guilty of having changed many
things and of having gone too far?
564
00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:30,740
Yes, we went too far!
We're guilty of having gone too far
565
00:55:30,740 --> 00:55:34,900
in our revolution, we went
to extraordinary extremes
566
00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:41,460
and for that we deserve the punishment
of all the tradition of Barolo.
567
00:55:41,460 --> 00:55:43,620
There, I admit it!
568
00:55:50,380 --> 00:55:54,540
I always got pissed off, for years
and years, because I asked myself:
569
00:55:54,540 --> 00:55:57,540
Why did Dante put Ulysses in hell?
570
00:55:57,540 --> 00:56:01,100
And at a certain point
I understood: Ulysses dragged along
571
00:56:01,100 --> 00:56:04,460
a whole series of people,
because he made them dream.
572
00:56:04,460 --> 00:56:07,100
"Come with me to the end of the world".
573
00:56:07,100 --> 00:56:11,900
And perhaps there was this world,
immobile, and all of a sudden
574
00:56:11,900 --> 00:56:16,700
we saw something
imaginative in change.
575
00:56:19,780 --> 00:56:24,900
It was a beautiful journey,
and if the crew later separated
576
00:56:24,900 --> 00:56:29,500
and some stayed in one place,
and others in another,
577
00:56:29,500 --> 00:56:35,340
that's what happens
to those who sail the seas.
578
00:56:44,278 --> 00:56:46,325
We've arrived to the end of our story.
579
00:56:46,325 --> 00:56:49,113
We have lived and revealed
40 years of change
580
00:56:49,113 --> 00:56:52,598
in a once obscure corner of Italy
called Langhe,
581
00:56:52,598 --> 00:56:55,328
while the world around was transforming.
582
00:56:55,372 --> 00:56:58,638
The international recognition
received by the Barolo Boys
583
00:56:58,638 --> 00:57:02,861
has brought a great benefit to the
Langhe, the land that gave them birth.
584
00:57:02,861 --> 00:57:05,902
It has brought prosperity,
it has brought better wines,
585
00:57:05,902 --> 00:57:09,335
and many more wine-makers
are now making wine in this area.
586
00:57:09,335 --> 00:57:13,520
Every once in a while someone asks me:
“Is there a winner in this story?”
587
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,512
It’s a good question.
588
00:57:15,512 --> 00:57:22,287
Certainly the will not to submit to a
pre-determined history is a victory.
589
00:57:22,287 --> 00:57:26,386
But the journey of the Barolo Boys
is not finished yet.
590
00:57:26,386 --> 00:57:29,008
Maybe it changed direction,
591
00:57:29,008 --> 00:57:32,700
perhaps it changed variety or location,
592
00:57:32,781 --> 00:57:37,154
but the fight goes on even today.
593
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:21,300
People think:
"Who knows how Elio Altare lives?"
594
00:58:22,460 --> 00:58:29,100
If instead they saw in what difficult
conditions I work, I'd lose credibility.
595
00:58:32,060 --> 00:58:35,540
They would start to say:
"Who makes him do it?"
596
00:58:35,540 --> 00:58:40,420
But I have fun, who cares!
597
00:58:42,300 --> 00:58:45,980
I pick my grapes, relaxed...
598
00:58:54,620 --> 00:58:58,060
I keep being a farmer because I like it.
599
00:58:58,060 --> 00:59:00,100
It's in my blood, there's
nothing to be done.
600
00:59:00,100 --> 00:59:03,900
Also because it's the only thing
I know how to do.
601
00:59:03,900 --> 00:59:08,380
And plus I really like
the challenge, the game!
602
00:59:25,700 --> 00:59:28,420
This is also a dream.
603
00:59:28,420 --> 00:59:31,900
Around 15 years ago, when
I came to Riomaggiore for the
604
00:59:31,900 --> 00:59:35,700
first time, it was like how it was
with us 40, 50 years ago.
605
00:59:35,700 --> 00:59:42,460
It was the same, completely emptied
of young people, they chose other jobs.
606
00:59:43,780 --> 00:59:48,340
So the idea is to revive
a few small wineries
607
00:59:48,340 --> 00:59:52,380
that can survive only
thanks to this work.
608
00:59:52,620 --> 00:59:58,340
Time will judge what I'm doing.
I absolutely cannot boast
609
00:59:58,340 --> 01:00:03,420
of having identified a new
path, or who knows what.
610
01:00:04,060 --> 01:00:08,100
I'm just trying to interpret
a wine by following
611
01:00:08,100 --> 01:00:12,540
the advice of the older generation,
and therefore tradition,
612
01:00:12,540 --> 01:00:19,460
but applying new techniques,
using new wood, when possible.
613
01:00:20,500 --> 01:00:25,100
I have a lot of faith in a final result.
614
01:00:25,100 --> 01:00:28,100
And this is the big challenge.
615
01:00:28,100 --> 01:00:33,260
We'll see if we manage
to succeed in this too.
616
01:00:33,620 --> 01:00:37,380
And if we don't, oh well:
I'll have had fun, simply.
617
01:00:39,980 --> 01:00:43,420
That's enough now.
I've already talked too much!
618
01:01:17,300 --> 01:01:18,860
Can you help me?
619
01:01:21,620 --> 01:01:23,900
Let's take this one under too
54945
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.