Marchesi di Barolo: From Terroir To Time, a Barolo Tasting Spanning Half a Century

by Yumi Liu

I recently spent an enjoyable moment not at a conventional winery dinner, but at what ended up being a remarkably coherent tasting journey (even though, yes, it was a dinner). The evening’s journey began with wines from different denominations and grape varieties across Piemonte, gradually narrowing its focus to Nebbiolo, and ultimately arriving at three cru wines (what are referred to officially as Menzioni Geografiche Aggiuntive or MGAs, but are for all intents and purposes large vineyard districts)—Coste di Rose, Cannubi and Sarmassa—from the same 2019 vintage and the same commune of Barolo.

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Yumi Liu

Yumi Liu has been collecting and drinking wine for more than a decade and has earned a slew of wine certificates in the interim: level 3 WSET and now planning diploma studies; Educator level in Spanish wines (Wines of Spain certified), top level New Zeland wines (Wines of New Zeland certified) and obtained the highest score in her class for German wines (Wines of Germany certified). She has passed all of Ian D’Agata’s Italian wine courses and is generally regarded as being one of the most knowledgeable people on Italian wine in all of China. Over the years, she has also served as the Wine Educator at EMW wines, one of China’s five largest and most important fine wine importers and has led masterclasses on wines at prestigious wine shows including the Wine to Asia fair in Shenzhen and Vinitaly in Verona.

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