90 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011
(aged in old casks holding from 25 to 50 hectoliters): Good bright red-ruby. Aromatic nose offers black cherry, raspberry, violet, licorice and herbs. Sweet, intense fruit is buttressed by a firm spine of acidity. Brisk but not hard. Finishes with lightish tannins, excellent energy and lovely purity. An excellent barbera from a terrific vintage for this variety.
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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;
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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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