Alberto Voerzio

Barbera d'Alba DOC

Tasting in cellar, Alberto's Barbera is so bright and crunchy, elevated entirely in neutral oak it is the classic and infinitely food friendly style, undeterred by the modernista stylings that have made extracted and oak-driven Barbera the norm. The palate remains juicy and electric with red fruit for days: sour cherry, cranberry, and red currant. A touch of blackberry is beginning to develop as well. The acid zippers down the palate with a rambunctious tang. Only five bunches per vine and just 0.5-1kg fruit per vine (i.e. about one bottle for every two vines!), this is what careful farming of quality fruit can give you: A traditionally rendered must-have Barbera for all you thoroughgoing Piemonte purists out there.

(This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)
Italy
Red
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
Around 85 mg/lt
Vegan Wine

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barbera d'Alba DOC

Varietal/Blend:  100% Barbera

ABV:  14.5%

Vineyard:  Grown on Tortonian soils of blue-grey marl, clay, and fine sand at 300–450 m, Alberto Voerzio’s Barbera d’Alba comes from biodynamic-practicing, hand-tended vineyards with ultra-low yields, no herbicides, and manual harvests each September for optimal fruit.

Cellar: This Barbera wine ferments naturally with indigenous yeast in stainless steel after careful hand sorting. It matures 12 months in used French oak barriques and eight in stainless. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, with low SO₂, natural sediment may form.

CSPC:  889832

Winemakers Note:  []

What the Critics are saying:  []

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Alberto Voerzio
Barbera d'Alba DOC

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barbera d'Alba DOC

Italy
Red
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
Around 85 mg/lt
Vegan Wine
Tasting in cellar, Alberto's Barbera is so bright and crunchy, elevated entirely in neutral oak it is the classic and infinitely food friendly style, undeterred by the modernista stylings that have made extracted and oak-driven Barbera the norm. The palate remains juicy and electric with red fruit for days: sour cherry, cranberry, and red currant. A touch of blackberry is beginning to develop as well. The acid zippers down the palate with a rambunctious tang. Only five bunches per vine and just 0.5-1kg fruit per vine (i.e. about one bottle for every two vines!), this is what careful farming of quality fruit can give you: A traditionally rendered must-have Barbera for all you thoroughgoing Piemonte purists out there.

(This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

TECHNICAL INFO

Varietal/Blend:  100% Barbera

ABV:  14.5%

Vineyard:  Grown on Tortonian soils of blue-grey marl, clay, and fine sand at 300–450 m, Alberto Voerzio’s Barbera d’Alba comes from biodynamic-practicing, hand-tended vineyards with ultra-low yields, no herbicides, and manual harvests each September for optimal fruit.

Cellar: This Barbera wine ferments naturally with indigenous yeast in stainless steel after careful hand sorting. It matures 12 months in used French oak barriques and eight in stainless. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, with low SO₂, natural sediment may form.

CSPC:  889832

Winemakers Note: []

What the Critics are saying: []

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barbera d'Alba DOC

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Varietal/Blend:  100% Barbera

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.

Ageing: 

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.

ABV:  14.5%

Produced Cases:  50

CSPC:  889832

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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Joe Gurba

780-203-5284

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Kerrie Gavin

306-290-0277

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