Red
Barbera Piemonte
By La Briusa, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
A lively, steel-aged Barbera at 13.5% abv; the site lists the 2022 vintage at 7.00 EUR.
Tasting notes
Plum and cherry on the nose, slightly lively on the palate.
Pairs well with
Pizza, pasta, sauces and starters with intense flavours; its liveliness can help cleanse the palate.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Piemonte DOC Barbera
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Vigliano d'Asti
- Soil
- Mostly calcareous, with small percentages of sand
- Exposure
- South-east
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training, hillside vineyards at 279 m above sea level; vines range from about fifty years old (Barbera) to the 2017 plantings of Nebbiolo
- Vinification
- Two months in stainless steel tank, one month in bottle.
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- Monferrato Dolcetto, Monferrato DOC Dolcetto
- Monferrato Nebbiolo, Monferrato DOC Nebbiolo
- Piemonte Cortese, Piemonte DOC Cortese
- San Malvino, Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG