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2007 La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti Barbera d'Asti Superiore Bionzo
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2007 La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti Barbera d'Asti Superiore Bionzo

Producer: La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Barbera
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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92 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009

($50; from 65-year-old vines planted on rocky soil rich in calcaire, according to Rivetti; aged half in new and half in once-used barriques Good full red-ruby. Fully ripe aromas of cassis and dark chocolate. Sweeter, broader and silkier than the Ca' di Pian, with more old-viney creaminess and depth of flavor. This has the sheer stuffing to cover its sound acidity. Finishes with suave, oak-influenced tannins and a spicy character. From a crop level of just 25 hectoliters per hectare, says Rivetti, who notes that the 2004 version of this wine is great right now.

91 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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