Red
Barbera d'Alba Superiore
By pQlin, Roero, Piemonte, Italy
The oak-matured Barbera, twelve months in barrel before bottling.
Tasting notes
Ruby red with garnet reflections. Blackberry, plum and cherry with raspberry and wild berries. Full and well rounded, with soft, barely perceptible tannins; intense, warm, savory and balanced.
Pairs well with
Meat dishes, particularly local cured meats and soft cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba Superiore DOC
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Guarene, Castagnito
- Soil
- Calcareous and clayey
- Exposure
- South / South-West
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training, 4,000 vines/ha, vines 20-25 years old, altitude 280-320 m
- Vinification
- Hand-harvested in crates. Grapes are immediately destemmed and crushed. Maceration and fermentation on the skins run spontaneously with natural yeasts in temperature-controlled steel tanks at 28-30 °C. After 15 days the wine is racked and moved to steel at 22 °C. Malolactic follows alcoholic fermentation. Matured 12 months in oak barrels, then 1 month in steel and 2 months in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 °C
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