2020 La Salita Barbera d'Asti, Piedmont, ItalyABOUT THIS WINE 100% Barbera farmed in vineyards located in Roero and Asti. The vineyards in Roero are very steep, south facing and composed of young sandy soils giving the Barbera an aromatic and fresh quality. The vines are dry farmed and green harvesting is employed to deliver even and fully ripened fruit. Harvest is completed by hand. Fermented in stainless steel tanks over the course of 8 days. The wine is aged for 6 months in large, 10,000L oak

Accompany this meat with Deep Red and Medium bodied red wines for an amazing pairing

the wines themselves can sometimes be a little reduced

In their small cellar

Metal base

His ongoing evolution and pursuit of purity and expression continue to dominate his chais

just north of Lyon

the first contemporary red wine blended with untraditional varieties (specifically Cabernet) and one of the first red wines in the Chianti Classico region that didn’t use white grapes

The juice was cleaned by means of floatation after it was racked and inoculated to ferment at low temperatures

As they develop here in the shelter of the Argens Valley

Nutrient composts and cover crops increase the biodiversity of the soil and improve tilth

Planted in the alluvial plain of the Uvas Creek in the Santa Clara Valley over 100 years ago

was practicing organic viniculture many years before that