On a recent blind tasting I could not place this on the map. It smelled Old World but not something from the North, neither one from the Mediterranean. I should drink more barbera, obviously.
Roberto Voerzio Barbera d’Alba Vigneti Cerreto 2011
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A nice Barbera – Marziano Abbona Casaret 2018, Langhe
I brought this to our last Kékfrankos (Blaufrankisch) blind tasting, just to see if it would confuse people. The two grapes have some similarities (notably the bright acidity), but this clearly did not belong to the line-up. Not to mention that it outshone all the Kékfrankos wines, despite being less expensive than most of those. Continue reading