Country of origin: Italy
Wine appellation: Piemont, Alba
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 14.0%
Color: deep black garnet with bricky meniscus
Bouquet: very expressive and complex, coffee, vanilla, black chocolate, toast, canned cherries
Taste: medium to full body, excellent tannins, coffee, canned fruit, cranberries, very rounf and structured mouth feel, long finish
Recommended food pairing: dry salami, sausages
Overall score: 88
Price CZK499
Stopper: cork
Excellent complex, full with amazing tannins. Old world is an old old world:)
Barbera is generally esteemed for its deep color, low tannins and high levels of acidity, which is unusual for a red grape growing in a warm climate. When young it offers fresh flavors of cherries, blueberries and raspberries. Unlike Barbera d'Alba's counterpart, Barbera d’Asti DOCG, which is generally considered more feminine in nature (and produced in the classic, lively style associated with Barbera), this red is characteristically richer, bolder and fuller in flavor. It is usually made more in line with a Barolo or Barbaresco, coming out powerful and rounded. Due to its high acidity, this wine is considered to be better with some age, to allow the fruit, oak, tannins and acidity to integrate.
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