Red
Barbera d'Alba Superiore
By Rizieri, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Oak-aged Barbera d'Alba Superiore, 12 months in large barrels and tonneaux. The producer says it keeps 8 to 10 years.
Tasting notes
Intense purple red. Plum and cherry fruit with spicy hints of ginger and green pepper, described by the producer as seductively feminine. Enveloping and fleshy, with a fresh, persistent finish and acidity and tannins balanced by the wood ageing.
Pairs well with
First courses, braised and stewed red meats, aged and blue cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba Superiore DOC
- Grape
- Barbera
- Production area
- Sorì del Ricchino, Diano d'Alba
- Soil
- Calcareous-clayey with sandy veins
- Exposure
- 350 m above sea level; south/south-west
- Harvest
- September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training. Fertilised with manure and green manure; soil managed by hoeing and mowing under the row. Yield 55 hl/ha. Picked by hand in 20 kg crates. No herbicides are used on the estate.
- Vinification
- Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel with about 15 days of skin maceration; malolactic fermentation in wood. Aged 12 months in 25 hl Slavonian oak barrels and 500 l French oak tonneaux. Bottled after a very light filtration with minimal sulphites.
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