Variety: Barbera 100%.
Vineyard: One of Piedmont’s most representative grape varieties, accounting for 30 percent of the regional vineyard area.
Vinification: Grape selection generally takes place in late September or the first week of October and is conducted entirely by hand. The grapes are pressed the same evening and placed in stainless steel vats for alcoholic fermentation with an assisted temperature not exceeding 28°C. Maturation of the wine continues in the stainless steel vats until bottling and subsequent aging in the bottle, which lasts for several months.
Pairings: Try it with vitello tonnato, tagliatelle with Robiola di Roccaverano and squash blossoms or Mediterranean-style frogfish.
We also recommend you look at the Nizza DOCG Riserva, to taste a wine that comes from the same area, but aged in wood.
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“A young wine without barrel aging but of exceptional quality. Try it with a salami sandwich, a pizza, a nice plate of tajarin with meat sauce or a mixed boiled meat. It is my favorite wine for a good barbecue with friends.”
History
Barbera d’Asti is one of the first wines we have produced since we began our venture. The first wine catalogs dating back to the mid-1900s write about these bottles.
In this image the excerpt on Barbera d’Asti from the 1972 Bolaffi Catalogue of the Vini d’Italia No. 2 edited by Luigi Veronelli. A comparison of the 1969 label with the current one shows how the family has tried to pass on the tradition to this day.
