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2007 Vietti Barbera d'Alba Scarrone Vigna Vecchia
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2007 Vietti Barbera d'Alba Scarrone Vigna Vecchia

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

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90(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2009

($82; these vines are now 85 years old, according to Currado) Full ruby-red. Brooding aromas of blackberry, licorice and spicy oak. Even sweeter than the regular Scarrone but less lush and open today. In fact, this powerful barbera, which conveys a strong impression of acidity and finishes with serious tongue-dusting tannins, is a bit musclebound today. This one demands patience, but only time will tell if it will ever provide the sheer pleasure of the regular bottling.

91 Points | Wine Spectator
94 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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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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