Here’s a lovely interpretation of Barbera Superiore from Asti with extremely well-integrated notes of spice, chocolate, black fruit and dusty mineral. The wine has all the aromas you look for in this type of wine and delivers a very clean and polished feel in the mouth with subtle hints of toasted oak at the very end.
— M.L.
(9/1/2010)
Here’s a straight-laced Barbera d’Asti (aged in stainless steel) with linear aromas of berry fruit and cherry that appear in a direct and immediate manner. There’s no great complexity here, nor is there supposed to be. This is a genuine expression of a fundamentally easy-drinking food wine.
— M.L.
(9/1/2010)