Red
Barbera d'Alba
By Cascina Alberta, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbera d'Alba from Treiso vineyards of 10 to 20 years, aged 6 months in large Slavonian oak. Organic.
Tasting notes
Ruby red with violet reflections; fresh fruit, plum and blackberry on the nose, with spices such as pepper, cumin and cardamom. Enveloping, fresh and savoury, with marked acidity. Can be drunk slightly cool.
Pairs well with
A wine for the whole meal
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Barbera
- Production area
- Treiso (CN)
- Soil
- Limestone with sand
- Exposure
- South, south-west; 350 m above sea level
- Harvest
- September, by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot; vines 10 to 20 years old; yield 70 hl/ha; about 15,000 bottles a year
- Vinification
- Gently pressed; fermented in stainless steel at controlled temperature with indigenous yeasts; malolactic fermentation completed before ageing for 6 months in 50 hl Slavonian oak barrels. 14.5% alcohol.
- Serving temperature
- Slightly cool, if preferred
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