Patrizi Barbera d’Alba Vintage:2020

Patrizi Barbera d’Alba Vintage:2020Vibrant, fruit forward Barbera from Alba. This region tends to produce a food friendly style with slightly more structured and sappy than Barbera d'Asti. Souced from vines grown on clay chalk soils around Alba, and the neighbouring villages that form the Langhe plain and part of Roero. Guyot trained with a vine density of 3,500 vines per hectare. There is a green harvest in May and July. No irrigation is used. Grapes are hand harvested in the middle

and a mandatory Bin 389 'sweet' core

Rich but restrained

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A very approachable

rustic sausages

Through decades of study and exploration within Mendoza's high altitude mountain terroirs

The wine is matured for 6 months in large Slavonian oak casks

A hint of dryness next from the American oak with a long lingering florally finish - Marzipan and even limes at the end

The only Rioja by the glass at Ferran Adria's Restaurant El Bulli

disrupting flowering and causing low berry numbers in some varieties

this is a bright

The refined mid-palate is carried by steel-cut citrus acidity and an elegant