CASE PRICE = $25.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
About this wine: Region: Piemonte
Oenologist: Valter Fissore
Grapes: 100% Barbera
Vinification: Temperature controlled fermentation in stainless steel vats with constant automatic remounting. 12 months in Allier barriques 40% new and 60% second passage.
Tasting Notes: Bright ruby red in colour with clear crimson highlights. Deep, full perfumes, elegant, well-balanced and enduring, reminiscent of rose, undergrowth and oriental spices. Very powerful bouquet, sweetened by overall softness. Fine structure accompanied by lively acidic freshness. Flavors conjure up morello cherry and plum jam with a long finish of withered grape. Serve with tasty dishes such as pasta and red meat, medium-mature soft, fatty cheeses.
A typically Piedmontese wine, well-structured and good for aging, in which wood and fruit blend to maintain the characteristics and typicality of the grape varietal intact. True to Cogno tradition, its principal qualities are its quaffability and freshness. A wine with a strong but not too international character.
Ratings & Reviews
90 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine:
"This plush, darkly colored red is laced with blackberry and black currant flavors. Ambitious, meeting the challenge with fine balance and good grip on the lingering finish. Drink now through 2015. 200 cases imported." –BS (Feb 29, 2012)
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
"Very bright ruby-red. Blackberry, cassis, mint and violet on the vibrant nose. Sweet and fine-grained in the mouth; bright and dense but with a lovely light touch and noteworthy energy to the intense flavors of raspberry, blackberry, cherry and flowers. Finishes with fine tannins, very good length and solid minerally, medicinal grip." - Stephen Tanzer (Nov/Oct '11)
