2005 Vietti Barbera d'Alba Scarrone

Cantina Vietti is an estate that doesn't allow itself to be fully yoked by tradition.  There's plenty of concessions to the past, but the Currado family uses a combination of barriques and larger barrels to make wines of great class and depth. The Barolo Villero and Rocche bottlings here undergo the longest fermentations and are the estate's most serious, long-aging wines. The Barberas are also of undeniable quality: the  entry-level Tre Vigne is concentrated and penetrating, while their Scarrone comes from expensive Barolo soil near the Vietti winery. The barrique-aged wine labelled La Crena comes from vines in the Asti area that were planted in the 1930s.

Cantina Vietti is an estate that doesn't allow itself to be fully yoked by tradition.  There's plenty of concessions to the past, but the Currado family uses a combination of barriques and larger barrels to make wines of great class and depth. The Barolo Villero and Rocche ... more