Red
Napoleonica Barbera
By Bersano, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
Barbera d'Asti from the Champagnotta Napoleonica range, aged at least 6 months in oak. Sold in 50 cl.
Tasting notes
Deep red with garnet reflections. Intense red fruit with spice, tobacco and eucalyptus. Decisive, rich, with a pleasant, persistent finish of fruit and cocoa.
Pairs well with
A whole-meal wine; elaborate first courses, red and white meat and fresh or medium-aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Asti DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Agliano Terme, Vaglio Serra, Nizza Monferrato, Incisa Scapaccino, Mombaruzzo (AT)
- Soil
- Calcareous clay
- Harvest
- First and second ten days of September
- Vinification
- Macerated on the skins in automatic temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks with repeated pumping over and oxygenation until all sugars are fermented; then racked and left on fine lees for malolactic fermentation. Aged at least 6 months in oak barrels and then in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 °C
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