When Pliny the Elder is used as evidence, all alarm bells ring: Wherever one is not quite sure and puzzles over times that go back 2000 and more years, the scholar, general and administrator from the time around the birth of Christ - or at the beginning of our era - is quoted. He, too, is said to have provided the
first references to particularly good wines from the area of today's Piedmont. Well - anyone who has compiled so much about wine knowledge of that time in the comprehensive work "Naturalis Historia" certainly also has something to contribute about the wine from Piedmont, the
Nebbiolo. And Pliny is certainly capable of quoting, since he also coined (if it is true) the favourite quotation of many wine lovers: "In
Vino veritas" ("In wine lies the truth"). But for a long time I wanted to know whether I could find the "truth" of a good wine in Nebbiolo.
