2013 Riva Leone Piemonte Barbera

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 84 points

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  3/30/2016 - Woodbridge Brad Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Although it is somewhat of a simply elevated wine without barrel notes it is clearly Barbera and has nice spice and floral notes with good acid and a wonderful smoothness. As an everyday red this is real value. I noted the lower scores from other tasters but the character, balance and excellent finish of this clean fruity wine are worth a few extra points. At $9 bucks hard to quibble I have had far less enjoyable wine at many times that price.

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  12/6/2015 - chester100 wrote: 83 Points

  Lacks the depth of fruit that a great Barbara has.

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  8/12/2015 - ManhattanBeach Likes this wine:

  At Polpo restaurant. Cheerful, unassuming, versatile, enjoyable

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  7/31/2015 - Papies wrote: 84 Points

  An ok, inexpensive, easy to drink lunch wine. At least its not fake or made up. Decent fruit, young red cherry mostly and medium bodied. Does not overpromise and sticks to that path. relatively simple wine. 84

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  6/26/2015 - Rezy13 Likes this wine:

  See through garnet core, maroon rim; sweet candied red fruit and very floral, sweet cherries, licorice, young Italian all the way; sweet dark cherry, some pleasant sour, nice balance, some smokiness; easy drinking, tasty.

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