Barbera Piemonte Wines

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Hi, I'm Mark Middlebrook and I'm here in the Paul Marcus Wines Cantina. And in this segment I'm going to talk about Barbera. The tangy, all purpose, wonderful red wine from the Piemonte Region of Northwest Italy. Barbera is a grape variety. It's indigenous to this part of Italy. Although it's grown in other areas of Italy too. And even in the United States a little bit. And some other places. But Barbera is kind of the everyday wine that Piemonte is known for. It's typically if you just have an ordinary glass of red wine when you're there, it's often going to be Barbera. There are several different appellations or what the Italians call DOCs for Barbera. And that's simply a named wine type. The most common one that you'll see, at least in the United States is Barbera D'Alba. And so Barbera is a grape variety again. Alba is the town around which the vineyards are located. And there are many, many, many different producers of it. This particular one is the Felipe Galino Barbera D'Alba. He's just north of, about a half an hour north of Alba itself. This is a fresh fruity version. Done in, aged entirely in stainless steel. So, relatively modestly priced. Thirteen, fourteen dollars. And I drink a lot of this with pizza, pasta, lasagna. It's just, it's tangy, bright acidity, makes it go really well with anything that has tomatoes in it, but also other sorts of food. Chicken, Bar-B-Que, things like that. This is another Barbera D'Alba from a different producer, Cascina Ca'Rossa. Not too far from Felipo's vineyards as a matter of fact. Felipo Galino. This is done in a little different style where the wine is aged in barrique, in smaller wooden barrels for some time to give it a little more texture, a little more complexity. Also the vineyards are a little bit older for this particular wine. Which gives more complexity to it. So it's a little more ambitious style of Barbera. Would cost more like twenty five or thirty dollars retail. You might have that with a heartier sorts of food or cheeses. It's a slightly more special occasion wine. And then another DOC another appellation for Barbera is called Barbera D'Asti. So Asti is another Village town in Piemonte, about forty minute drive from Alba itself. Traditionally Asti style Barberas have been a little brighter, a little lighter, a little livelier, sometimes a little simpler. But nowadays I don't think there's such a big distinction. It really depends more on the producer or where the vineyards are located. How they've worked in vineyards. And how they've made the wine. This particular Barbera D'Asti is from a producer, a wonderful producer called Vietti and this is his bottle and called Tre Vigne. Which simply means three vineyards. So he blends fruit from three different vineyards in the Asti Region. Barbera is probably my favorite everyday Italian wine. Again any time I'm having those stereotypical Italian foods that have tomatoes or tomato sauce in them I drink it. But it goes well with anything that's not super protein heavy.

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