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2001 Paolo Scavino Barbera d'Alba Carati
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2001 Paolo Scavino Barbera d'Alba Carati

Producer: Paolo Scavino
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Barbera
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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89 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2004

($37; bottled three days before my visit; aged in a combination of barriques and large barrels) Bright medium ruby. Oaky aromas of black fruits, licorice and violet. Juicy, intense and penetrating; supple and shapely, with solid backbone. Not especially fleshy or sweet but very fresh and serious barbera. This represents a selection of Scavino's best lots of barbera (this special cuvee was not made in 2002).

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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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