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Wine Details
Price:
$24.00 per bottle
Description:
Grapes for this wine have their heritage in the Piedmont Hills of Northern Italy. While ours were grown in the United States, the comparisons with Sangiovese and Nebbiolo are unmistakable. Here is a wine you can sink your teeth into. Rich, deep, and pleasing this is a satisfying wine that goes down easy and lingers long. Oh, the name? Rich, our Tasting Room Manager, sampled this wine when it was aging in the barrel. He exclaimed, “Boy, that is Drop Dead Good.” The rest is history.
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Varietal Definition
Barbera:
A red-wine grape of Italian origin that produces sturdy, tannic wines capable of aging. Barbera is widely planted in Italy’s Piedmont region, where it accounts for half the total acreage. Most California Barbera is grown in the Central Valley and finds its way into generic or proprietary blends. The Sierra Foothills, Paso Robles, Santa Clara and Sonoma, where very warm days are moderated by cool nights, produce some of the state’s best varietal Barberas. The fruit is naturally high in acid, which it retains very well, even in hot climates. Barbera grapes are also high in anthocyanins, but only low to moderate in tannin content. The resulting wines are deep, purplish black in their youth, but tend to early browning and lightening as they age. Tannin from oak aging can help somewhat to stabilize color.
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