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The Burgundification of Barolo and Barbaresco

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Italy inherited its physical and cultural remains, but authority fractured among city-states, bishoprics, Lombards, Byzantines, and later communes. This fragmentation endured for more than a millennium until unification in 1861, during which time, the country experienced repeated incursions and changing rule by Germanic, Byzantine, Islamic, Norman, imperial, papal, and dynastic […] The post The Burgundification of Barolo and Barbaresco first appeared on Word on the Grapevine .