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2001 Conterno Fantino Barbera d'Alba Vignota
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2001 Conterno Fantino Barbera d'Alba Vignota

Producer: Conterno Fantino
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Barbera
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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90 Points | International Wine Cellar , January/February 2003

($24; aged for ten months in second-year barriques) Bright medium ruby. Very sweet aromas of wild crushed currant, cherry, raspberry, saddle leather and chestnut honey. Sweet, lush and deep; round, ripe and very easy to drink, but with lovely acid lift and strong soil tones. Lush, silky, expanding finish. Finishes with very smooth tannins. "I'm not looking for a barbera with huge structure," explains Guido Fantino, "but rather a more traditional, consumer-friendly wine." (Empson U.S.A., Alexandria, VA)

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About Italy

Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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Barbera

Piedmont may be famous for its Nebbiolo-based wines, Barolo and Barbaresco, but the inhabitants of this region in Northwest Italy don't drink these big, tannic wines on an everyday basis. When it comes to a weekday dinner's accompaniment, they usually turn to Barbera (when not drinking the other everyday wine of the region, Dolcetto.) With this in mind, it's no surprise that...
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