Red
Battaglione Barbera d’Asti
By Renato Ratti, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
A rich, structured Barbera d’Asti with good persistence, suited to medium ageing. First vintage 2009.
Tasting notes
Intense red. Ripe fruit on a spicy background. Full, pleasant, elegant palate of good persistence.
Pairs well with
First courses and red meats.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d’Asti DOP
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Battaglione
- Production area
- Partly the Villa Pattono vineyards at Costigliole d’Asti, partly other vineyards in the Asti hills
- Harvest
- September, by hand
- Vinification
- Hand-harvested in September, destemmed and crushed. Alcoholic fermentation in temperature-controlled steel tanks, with about two weeks on the skins. Malolactic fermentation in steel.
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