Barbera d’Asti Superiore DOCG

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Asti is one of the most famous wine areas in Italy’s north-western Piedmont region. Barbera d’Asti became a DOC in 1970 and was upgraded to its DOCG classification in 2008, adding to Piedmont’s already impressive standing at this highest level of Italian wine classification. The Barbera d’Asti title covers the area around the town of Asti, exclusively focuses on red wines made from Barbera

DENOMINATION: Barbera d’Asti Docg Superiore
YEAR: 2018
GRAPE VARIETY: 100 % Barbera
ALCHOOL PERCENTAGE: 14,5 % Vol

COLOR: Beautiful deep ruby red color tending to garnet
PERFUME: Intense with flowary and fruity sensation
TASTE: Fresh, intense and characteristic aroma, dry with high aciity lightly tannic, and tends to become, with age, more full, harmonious and pleasant

FOOD MATCH: It is a wine that can be served for the whole meal; great with cold cuts, ham traditional meal from piedmont, red and white meat, different kind of pasta and some kind of fish like eel and carp
TEMPERATURE OF SERVICE: 18 – 20 ° C
GLASS RECOMMENDED: Ballon
AGEING: Years
CONSERVATION: Cold storage in fresh wine cellars

* The vintage displayed on the picture is not rapresentative of the current one on sale
Guide Edition Vintage Score
Guida Veronelli 2020 2016
Guida Veronelli 2019 2015 ​89pt
Decanter 2020 2016 Silver medal
Wine Hunted Award 2019 2016 Red medal
Tasted 100% Blind 2019 2016 90/100