Taste notes
Barbera d’Asti is a red wine with an intense and ruby colour. Its taste is easy with with distinctive notes of red fruits and spicy flavors.
Barbera d ‘Asti goes extremely well with all the typical dishes of the Piedmont tradition, in particular with second course meat and game dishes. Thanks to its acidity and structure, it can go very well with fresh and strong cheeses, but also with structured dishes that are particularly demanding .
Barbera is the “wine of meats” and memorable meals. It is an excellent companion for festive dinners and lunches such as Christmas, New Year, Epiphany or Easter. A great way to savor it is, for example, with lentils and pig’s trotter, or alternatively with roasted wild boar. Thanks to its harmonious taste, Barbera can also be a wine of meditation that can help reasoning and accompany thoughts of all kinds. It should be served preferably at a temperature of 18 – 20 ° C.
Historical notes
This is a red wine with a good alcohol content, strong acidity and moderate structure. Barbera has always been one of the most popular varieties of wine in Piedmont. Not much is known about the origins of this vineyard; we only know that it was being cultivated at the end of the 1700s. You could say that in the past Barbera was the table wine drunk by most farmers, perhaps because of its rough and strong character, which was able to transmit the energy needed to overcome a hard day’s work that was common in the Langhe and Monferrato lands. This vine has good cultural and productive features and has excellent pedoclimate adaptability.
More information
Basic information
Product Name: Barbera d’Asti DOCG
Cépage: Barbera
Appellation: Barbera d’Asti
Classificaton: DOCG
Color: red
Type: still
Country/Region: Piedmont Cuneo
Vintage: 2022
Alcohol content: 13% vol.
Residual sugar: about 1 to 1.4 g/l
Vinification (Wine-making)
Method: the grapes are destemmed, crushed and sent to alcoholic fermentation inside cement and steel tanks, with a capacity of about 8 q each. Fermentation is conducted with specially selected yeasts, at a controlled temperature, under the action of frequent pumping over and delestage.
Temperature: 25 °C for the duration of the process, with thermo-conditioning
Duration: approximately 15 days
Malolactic: carried out in steel tanks
Aging: 2 – 3 months in steel tank
Minimum time in bottle: 10 – 15 days from bottling
Bottle
Empty bottle weight: 400 g
Aging potential: 3 years
Cork size: 24×44
Cork material: cork
Bottle type: bordolese 0,75 l
Vineyard
% Grape/varietal: 100 % barbera
Soil: medium mixture, with a good endowment of clay and iron and aluminum silicates. Low endowment of limestone
Exposure: south
Agricultural method: spontaneous grassing, with 2 mowings of the grass during the spring – summer season and one tillage (subsoiling with 3-tooth ripper) at a depth of 30 – 40 cm, carried out in autumn. Limited use of herbicides and fungicides. Light thinning is also practiced to avoid excess production and improve quality
Year of planting: 1977
Type of harvest: by hand in boxes
Geolocation: medium hill
Chemical Analysis
Total acidity: about 5.50 g/l in tartaric acid
Packaging
Number of bottles per box: 6
Size of box: 260 x 172 x 311 mm
Type of box: white corrugated cardboard in microtriples, autographed with the company’s brand name