Red
Barbera d'Alba Superiore
By Abrigo Fratelli, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Abrigo Fratelli's Barbera d'Alba Superiore, aged at least a year in used oak casks and barriques from a single 0.6 ha plot planted in 2001.
Tasting notes
Colour: clear, very intense ruby red with purple highlights. Bouquet: very intense and complex, fine spices of pepper and vanilla with a herbaceousness, fine blackberry and jam fruitiness, cinnamon and clove. Taste: dry, warm and soft, opening with spice then ripe blackberry and blueberry, good acidity, silky tannin, vanilla and a hint of oak, robust but well-balanced body, fine, intense and persistent.
Pairs well with
Stewed and boiled red meat dishes, rich sauces, cured meats
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba Superiore DOC
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Diano d'Alba
- Soil
- Calcareous clay marl with interspersed sandstone, a young soil poor in organic matter with a loamy texture
- Exposure
- South-west
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2001, 4500 vines/ha, about 0.6 ha at 400 m altitude
- Vinification
- Grapes gently crushed and destemmed, fermented in contact with the skins for 8-9 days at 27-28°C, aged a minimum 12 months in used oak casks and French barriques, plus at least six months in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 18°C
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