Barolo???

[Tyrrell]

In the summer of 1998 I had a wine which I enjoyed (I think I spent <$15 on it) that I thought was a Chianti classico.

It had a plain off white label with "Barolo" written in large red letters across it. I've seen this bottle many places since then all over the country.

Now I've been slowly chipping away little chunks off of the monolith of wine ignorance that I posses and in so doing I learned that there is a type of wine called Barolo made with a grape called nebbiolo rather than sangiovese. Is the wine that I was fond of not a Chianti at all (as I suspect) or is there some diabolical scheme afoot to spread confusion? (I realize that these are not mutually exclusive.)