When Barbera was black...

“Once Barbera was not a red wine, but a “black” one, and restaurants didn’t give you a wine list as thick as a telephone directory and divided into sections, like Dante’s “Divina Comedia”: a good waiter just asked “Red or white?” To tell you the truth he actually said “ Black or white”, and he spoke dialect… Maybe manners were a little coarse, but wine consumption was normal in the daily diet and wasn’t confined to the sophisticated sphere of parties or special events: from a certain point of view, things were better then!”