Consortia Alba

Consorzio Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani

Already at the beginning of the last century the winemakers of Barolo and Barbaresco felt the need to come together to protect their production: in 1908 they asked for the creation of a "certificate of origin" issued by an association operating under the control of provincial administration and the Piedmontese wine union. Only in 1924, however, the Italian Parliament promulgated the law on typical wines and established that their characteristics had to be constant and defined by the consortium statutes. Thus began the preparatory work for the establishment of the Consortium for the Defense of Typical Wines of Pregio Barolo and Barbaresco, officially founded in 1934 with the task of defining the production context (the area of origin, the grapes and the characteristics of the wine), against fraud, adulteration and unfair competition, to promote the knowledge of wines, as well as to defend their name and quality in the most appropriate fora. After the break dictated by the war events, the Consortium was reconstituted in 1947. In 1963 the law 930 was issued, which sanctioned the birth of the designations of origin and defined the exact role of the Consortia. Immediately, the Albese Consortium worked for the recognition of the DOC for Barolo and Barbaresco, which took place in 1966, and later for that of the DOCG, granted in 1980. In 1984 the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry officially entrusted the Consortium with the task supervision of the production of the two excellent reds. The protection exercised on Langa wines was perfected between 2007 and 2009, when the Ministry assigned the Consortium the task of carrying out the Control Plan on all the DOCGs and DOCs under its competence. In this way, not only Barolo and Barbaresco, but also Dogliani, Barbera d'Alba, Dolcetto (in its various types), Langhe, Nebbiolo d'Alba and Verduno Pelaverga are perfectly guaranteed in terms of traceability.