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Barbera d'Asti Bricco dell'Uccellone 2021 75cl

DOCG | Barbera d'Asti | Piemonte | Italy
CHF 55.15
Critics scores
95 James Suckling
A complex, beguiling barbera with layered aromas of licorice, sweet violets, earth, leather, restrained black cherries and plums. Medium- to full-bodied with flavors of oak bark and graphite, showing smoky complexity, velvety tannins and zesty yet integrated acidity. Long, chocolaty and warming finish. Drink or hold.
94 Vinous
92 Wine Spectator
Well-marked by new oak, whose elements of sweet spices embrace the plum, blackberry and fruitcake flavors. Vibrant and silky, this firms up, offering a line of dense tannins on the long finish. Walks the line between power and elegance. Drink now through 2030. 7,000 cases made, 3,500 cases imported.
Producer
Braida
Certainly, the name Giacomo Bologna has become synonymous with Barbera d’Asti. He was one of Piedmont’s greatest innovators and personalities. He inherited the vineyards, the nickname “Braida” and the passion for viniculture and viticulture from his father, Giuseppe Bologna. So much so, that in 1961 Giacomo created Braida in Rocchetta Tanaro. Giacomo is remembered for his determined spirit, and his belief in Barbera’s potential. He became one of the first to use French-oak casks to vinify his best grapes –raising the overall quality from a traditional table Barbera to a fine wine. He was also one of the first producers in Piedmont to export their wines, exposing Italian wines to the world market. Today, the estate is run by another generation, whom also happen to be oenologists, Raffaella and Giuseppe Bologna, their flagship Barbera, Bricco dell’Uccellone, that was created in 1982 was the first Super-Barbera, and has become one of the world’s unsurpassable Italian wines.