Red
Barbera d'Alba Superiore
By Réva, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbera Superiore from vines over 40 years old at San Sebastiano and Ravera, aged 10 months in Austrian oak. About 15,000 bottles are made.
Tasting notes
Full-bodied, structured, enveloping and long on the palate. Aromatic bouquet of red berry fruit, candied fruit and fruit in spirit, and spice. Fresh and very drinkable.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC Superiore
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Monforte d'Alba, Località San Sebastiano; Novello (Ravera)
- Soil
- Sant'Agata marls with a good concentration of sand and silt depending on exposure, and good active limestone content from fossiliferous marls and sandstones and Diano sandstones
- Exposure
- South-East; North-East
- Vineyard planting
- 4,500 plants per hectare; 2.6 ha; altitude 300-350 m; vineyards over 40 years old
- Vinification
- Manual selection of the grapes on a vibrating table. Soft pressing and spontaneous alcoholic fermentation on the skins in temperature-controlled steel tanks for about 30 days, then 10 months in 50 hl Stockinger Austrian oak barrels and at least 14 months in bottle.
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