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2006 Aldo Conterno Barbera d'Alba Conca Tre Pile
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2006 Aldo Conterno Barbera d'Alba Conca Tre Pile

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

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91 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009

($55; aged 12 months in all new barriques Deep red-ruby. Captivating aromas of black raspberry, black cherry, licorice and game; some tasters may find this a bit too wild. Then sweet, juicy and serious, with intense dark fruit flavors complicated by mineral and animal nuances. Strong acidity appears to facilitate the integration of the wine's oak component. Finishes long and subtle, with very fine-grained tannins.

90 Points | Wine Spectator
90 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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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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