Piedmont vineyard map

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Can anyone link me to a good one? I have no idea where the named vineyards are within Barolo and Barbaresco.

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Dan – Searching for “maps of Barolo” in Google images will get you a good range.

The best I know of in hard copy form are the relatively new Alessandro Masnaghetti maps and the Slow Food Wine Atlas of the Langhe.

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The Masnaghetti maps are the best and most up to date. As well as paper they’re also available as Apps for iPad, where they work very very nicely!

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Hey Dan,

Check these amazing maps out too. Site is free.

It’s in German, but very easy - Just change the lage (Vineyard), etc. to look all over Europe.

Charlie Gierling, who posts here on Wineberserkers gave me the link the other day. Thank you Charlie!

Love these maps!

Most of the great wine regions of Europe - very cool!

Cheers!

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Rob – Those are cool. It’s a very incomplete set of identified vineyards, though – just a subset of the recognized crus in Barolo.

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John,

If you pull down the Gemeinde tab on the left you’ll get the other villages of the Barolo region, with many, many vineyards shown in total. Amazing site. Viel dank Rob!

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Vincent – It’s pretty complete for Barolo and (I think) Serralunga, but in La Morra it has only La Serra, Cerequoi and Brunate and Rocche – just a fraction of the total area, and just four of the many recognized vineyards. Castiglione is even more incomplete (e.g., no Villero or Bricco Boschi). Monforte is missing the vineyards along the ridge near the hamlet of Perno such as Santo Stefano, though perhaps that’s because there’s less nebbiolo up there.

Still, it’s great to have this via Google maps, where you can see the satellite image and/or the map, too.

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Yeah, John,

Mess around with the tabs to find more stuff.

Haven’t looked at everything yet - Looks like it’s still a work in progress in some areas.

Burgundy & Piedmont before Bordeaux, & NO St. Emilion/Pomeral?!?!? . . . This is Certainly Blasphemy! [snort.gif]

Love the stuff that is up though.

Makes me want to do a drinking tour of Germany (at least!), to start with, anyway.

Cheers! & Thank You MUCH Charlie Gierling!

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I have. Can you find Villero or Bricco Boschi in Castiglione, or any vineyard on the lower slopes of La Morra? I don’t see them.

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No, you’re right - don’t see them.

I PM’ed Charlie Gierling who told me about the map to begin with to ask if progress was still being made. It sounded like he had something to do with it.

Would love to see Bordeaux Chateau, especially St. Emilion put up eventually.

I’ll let you know when I hear back - maybe interest will spur the project on>

Cheers!

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Masnaghetti’s maps are the ultimate geek-out, enormously detailed even to the extent of showing individual holdings of individual vineyards. Now all he has to do is decide which are ‘premier’ and which are ‘grand.’

I had no idea they were available on the iPad, that would be a great thing to take along on a trip to the Langhe.

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No Falletto di Serralunga d’Alba!!! [swoon.gif]

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I’m with Oliver – the Masnaghetti maps are the ultimate geek-out. Before I traveled to Barolo a year ago, I bought the five main maps and spread them out like puzzle pieces on my living room floor to get the full picture of the region. You can spend hours with them. And, when I got to the wineries, just about every single one sells copies of the maps in the tasting room, so they’re clearly the industry standard and will give you street cred if you travel there…

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Hi,
sorry for answering late and thanks a lot for posting this and for the feedback!

We are the 4 of us doing http://weinlagen-info.de/ . Some brief points:

  1. it works on wikipedia principles. This means: if something is missing, enter it yourself! If something is wrong, correct it!

  2. we started with Germany (which is complicated enough). For an idea how id could look like when it is more complete, check the Rheingau Weinlagen. Which is almost complete. Other German regions are not as complete, but still better than non-German reagions. Makes sense to have look: Alsace Grand crus, Chablis Grand Curs, Neive Weinlagen, some Burgundy villages like Weinlagen, Weinlagen, Weinlagen, Weinlagen, Weinlagen. There is some Austrian and even one Hungarian vineyard Weinlagen.

  3. the focus is not on appelations but on single vineyards. That’s why Bordeaux is not there (yet).

  4. Its free in 3 senses of the word:
    a. view and navigate
    b. Link. Put links wherever you want to. Say, you write about a wine whith a single vineyard on the label, then put the link under that singe vineyard. Example 2007 István Szepsy Hárslevelu Király.
    c. insert iframes on your website (blog etc.). Example

<iframe%20width=“425”%20height=“350”%20frameborder=“1”%20scrolling=“no”%20marginheight=“0”%20marginwidth=“0”%20src="> http://www.weinlagen-info.de/weinlage.html?lage_id=2630">%20</iframe> >

For details

  1. use the search (“Suchbegiff”).

  2. For the moment its German language only. Reason: translation is boring. But English and Italian is planned.

  3. For the now there are no entities under the single vineyard (parcels, plots, historical vinyards, etc). But we work on a concept.

  4. it works ok on iPad and similar without an app, simply in browser.

  5. the app for iPhone works fine, but not available yet. If we find the time to get it through it will be free.

In case you want to help, there are a few possibilties:

  1. enter and change content: I’ll get you a user. Better if you read German (sorry).
  2. found errors in the tool: drop me a mail at weinlagen@gmx.de or go to “Fehler melden”. If the error is in the content, give me pricise information on the correct content (like maps).
  3. use it, set links and iFrames! If the traffic increases it might attract people who can enter/correct content, which is good for the community.
  4. If you are a producer, help out on the content and put your name in the list of producers for that vineyard.
  5. help in translation - when the tool is ready for multi-language.

Charlie

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Dan, I have one or two of the Masnaghetti maps that I can show you when you get back to London if you’re interested. They are impressive.

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Ah great, thanks Brady. I look forward to seeing them.

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I am here: Google Maps

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Charlie – Thanks for creating this very cool tool!

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Thanks for the info, Charlie!

Wish I remembered much more than Wie Gehts, Tschuss, und Prost from my High School German! [wink.gif]

. . . but I will definitely be perusing, & using these great maps - More than 50% of the wines I drink on a daily basis are German.

Prost!

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There’s more! I think the Masnaghetti maps have been adopted by the Consorzio as their official definitions of the layout of the named vineyard sites. If you go to the Consorzio website http://www.langhevini.it/welcome_eng.lasso and click on the “maps” link it takes you to a page where you can choose a free access (accesso libero) and press go (vai) and it will take you a map page. I’ve only just found this but it appears to have individual vineyards plus other geographical info you can add in layers.

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Apple just released the app

http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/weinlagen.info/id493011261?mt=8

Works on iPhone, iPad, iPod

It’s free

Finds the next vineyard