Alberto Voerzio

Tasting in cellar, Alberto's Barbera is so bright and crunchy, elevated entirely in neutral oak it is the classic and infinitely food friendly style, undeterred by the modernista stylings that have made extracted and oak-driven Barbera the norm. The palate remains juicy and electric with red fruit for days: sour cherry, cranberry, and red currant. A touch of blackberry is beginning to develop as well. The acid zippers down the palate with a rambunctious tang. Only five bunches per vine and just 0.5-1kg fruit per vine (i.e. about one bottle for every two vines!), this is what careful farming of quality fruit can give you: A traditionally rendered must-have Barbera for all you thoroughgoing Piemonte purists out there.

(This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)