Filmed in the marvelous landscape of the Langhe hills, Barolo Boys – The Story of a Revolution traces the short but intense trajectory of a group of producers who indelibly changed the world of wine.
Now one of the most famous red wines in the world, 30 years ago Barolo was unknown even in its own production region, the beautiful Langhe (recently nominated a UNESCO World Heritage Site), in northwestern Italy. Barolo’s current success is mainly due to the courage and initiative of a group of small-scale wine producers, the so-called Barolo Boys. In the optimistic Eighties, these winemakers upset the quiet world of the Piedmontese countryside and brought about a revolution in Italian wine-making, igniting a fierce controversy between different generations and different ways of thinking.
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A film by Paolo Casalis and Tiziano Gaia (2014, 64′) | Italian with English subtitles | Produced by Stuffilm | With Elio Altare, Chiara Boschis, Marco de Grazia, Giorgio Rivetti, Roberto Voerzio, and the special participation of Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food, Oscar Farinetti, president of Eataly, and Joe Bastianich, narrator voice.
Barolo Boys is part of Programma Piemonte, a series of events focusing on the Piedmont region taking place at the Museo Italo Americano and the Italian Cultural Institute, under the patronage of the Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, and Associazione Piemontesi nel Mondo of Northern California.