92 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009
($28) Very fresh, almost inky aromas of blackberry and violet. Juicy and intense, with superb lift and energy to the black fruit and violet flavors. This boasts uncanny depth of flavor and sweetness for barbera. Extremely young and long, and built to age.
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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