12/1/2023 - Alexander Smith Likes this wine:

PnP this a wonderfully elegant and silky Produttori del Barbaresco, this shows how wonderful this vintage and producer are. I believe I purchased this for just under $50 cad. I realize drinking this bottle, that Nebbiolo is probably one of my favourite varietals, and I wish I drank more of them.

Pretty aromas of cherries, crushed roses, tar, smoke, volcanic ash, crushed stones and black tea. The palate is bight yet with succulent fruit and finely gravely stones, tea and pepper, the mid-palate has this wonderful floral and slight kirsch profile leading to a silky yet slightly electric finish.

8/30/2023 - vulgar little monkey wrote:

Spritzy, maybe refermenting. Will check another one soon.

9/3/2022 - rmodak wrote:

Premoxed with golden color and nutty notes. Stilll has decent fruit but tastes much older that it should. Quite concerning.

11/20/2022 - bevetroppo Likes this wine:

There are several broad styles of barbera in my somewhat limited view. There's quaffable fruit-driven pizza wine, and I like that just fine if it's not otherwise spoofy. These can also taste completely nondescript, sharp, saggy or worse in the wrong hands, which sadly is most of what shows up on these shores. At the other extreme is the "I'm going to pump you up" self-important, "serious" barbera, heavily oaked and generally Parkerized to death. Can't drink those at all, and the genre should just go away. In the middle is a small group of producers who truly make barbera wines worth drinking and thinking about, like this one. It's a dark ruby color, beguiling notes of dark red berries, plum, and sour cherry on the nose, stitched together with a savory lash that seemed like sandalwood at first but started to integrate into a more holistic spicy quality with air. Beautiful, complex juicy red and black fruits on the palate, high-toned acids, and an earthy overcoat resolving in a gently tannic but full finish.

This presses all my barbera buttons and is as serious as you can get without going an inch beyond drinkability or food-friendliness even at 14%. Pizza, yes! Roast chicken? Sure! I tried both over two nights and it never missed a beat.

9/20/2017 - Julian Marshall Does not like this wine:

A rare beast indeed - a 2010 I dislike. There are plenty of good points - the bright, rich attack , surprisingly complex, of plum, blackberry and damask, with a strong seam of Asian spice in the middle, and the satisfying middle section which follows, where the wine lifts and fills the mouth. But there's a lack of structure and acidity, so no compensation for the 14°. As a result, it's certainly heady and rich, but there's a lack of freshness which leads to a rather syrupy finish. And which gives a massive headache.
The score is for those who can take this sort of wine.