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2009 La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti Barbera d'Alba Gallina
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2009 La Spinetta/Giorgio Rivetti Barbera d'Alba Gallina

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

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89 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

(aged for a year in barriques, 50% new and 50% once-used, then in stainless steel until the bottling in July of this year):  Black fruits, violet and sexy oak on the nose; reminded me of a California cabernet.  Rich and fairly large-scaled, with concentrated flavors of blackberry, cassis and violet.  Initially seemed a bit flat for barbera but this very ripe wine possesses adequate acidity.  Ready now.

92 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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