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Barolo as you've never seen it

Alessandro Masnaghetti, wine mapman

Alessandro Masnaghetti, wine's map man, harnesses drones to take his already admirable work into another dimension. Plus a special offer for Purple Pagers.

Cartographer Alessandro Masnaghetti, famous for his detailed maps of Italian wine regions, especially Barolo and Barbaresco, and (this man gets around) Napa Valley and the Médoc, has always wanted to move from two to three dimensions. In his books on Barolo (2011) and Barbaresco (2016), every cru, or single vineyard, is drawn in a such a way that it seems to pop up from the page.

In 2011 a large map made from plastic showing Barolo...