Red
Barbera d'Alba Superiore
By Cascina Mucci, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Estate Barbera aged in French barriques, from the Barata, Manno and behind-the-cellar vineyards. 2,000 bottles and 43 magnums of the 2022.
Tasting notes
Dark ruby red. Fresh and very intense nose. Complex, structured, very intense and persistent, still young (2022 vintage).
Pairs well with
Red meats, roasts and important dishes; grilled meat, wild boar, aged cheeses such as hard Bra.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC Superiore
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Roddino (Località Mucci)
- Soil
- Calcareous, sandy and clayey soils
- Harvest
- Two harvests, 25 to 29 September 2022
- Vineyard planting
- Barata (planted 2002), Manno (2007) and the vineyard behind the cellar (2017); English sheet also names Trivé (2018); Guyot training
- Vinification
- Soft crushing and destemming; 10 days on the skins with pumping over three times a day; malolactic fermentation in steel during alcoholic fermentation; at least 24 months in 228-litre French oak barriques, more than a third new. Yield for Barbera alone 320 g/sq m.
- Serving temperature
- 17-19 °C; decanting in a carafe recommended
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