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2006 Marchesi di Gresy Barbera d'Asti
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2006 Marchesi di Gresy Barbera d'Asti

Producer: Marchesi di Gresy
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Barbera
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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89 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009

($18; aged mostly in Slavonian oak casks, plus a small percentage of old barriques Good deep red. Cherry and spices on the nose, accented by cedary, spicy oak. Broad, lush and sweet, with sour cherry and spice flavors given a sappy quality by lively acidity. Finishes with lingering notes of cherry, leather and spice and very good lift. The 2006 vintage brought even ripeness and good balancing acidity for barbera, noted cellarmaster Jeff Chilcott.

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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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