2016 Cascina delle Rose Barbera d'Alba Superiore Donna Elena

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  4/26/2024 - habermas wrote: 88 Points

  Beaucoup trop alcooleux, avec un nez de solvant acrylique.

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  7/9/2023 - IvanLi Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I agree with the “not my grape” part, however judging objectively I have to say this is quite good wine with notes of jammy black fruit, wood, funk, spice, excellently integrated high acidity, fine grained ripe tannins and hefty alcohol levels that are still well integrated. The finish delivers succulent ripe black sour cherries, dark chocolate, bitter cocoa.
  The wine pales in comparison to high-end Barolo /Barbaresco but so does it’s price.

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  2/24/2021 - TannicBeast Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Tasted blind. Med ruby with a purple core but a garnet hue on the rim. The med nose has a whiff of EA, ripe black plum, confected red cherry, earth, mushroom, some neutral oak spice. (Aged approx. 20 mos. in large Slavonian oak barrels). Dry, with med (+) to high acid, med tannin, high alcohol (14.5%). Full body, med (+) intensity and length. Drink now or over the next several years, this is just entering its optimal drinking window.
  
  Definitely Italian, from a moderate to warm climate, while yet maintaining plenty of acidity. This and the oak made me think Nero di Montalcino with some bottle age (although the tannins would have been higher). I completely forgot about Barbera.

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  11/27/2019 - retired_and_roving Does not like this wine:

  Thanksgiving week in Piemonte; 11/22/2019-11/30/2019 (Milan, Barolo, Alba, Barbaresco): Tasted at the winery. Nose is red fruited with a touch of funk. On the palate, I find this a bit jammy followed immediately by white pepper and and bright acidity. Have to admit - I just do not get Barbera (not this wine in particular) but the entire variety.

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  11/27/2019 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  Piedmont II - better and learnings; 11/23/2019-11/29/2019 (Barolo, Alba, others): Just not my grape. Three years in wood. It's all dark and brooding and reminds me of fruit salad with just a hint of the stewed (I don't think this was the wine making, I think it's just what this grape does or at least the impression it gives me over and over). Bit too much.

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