{"title":"Barbera","description":"\u003cp\u003ePiedmont's 2nd red grape behind Nebbiolo, Barbera is easy to enjoy and versitile with its low tannins and fleshy fruit. High acidity also makes it food-friendly, and flavors range from tart red berries to exotically ripe purple fruits.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"franco-serra-barbera-d-asti-2023","title":"Franco Serra Barbera d’Asti 2023","description":"","brand":"Sauce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48384318603487,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P1210676.jpg?v=1769059324"},{"product_id":"ca-di-press-barbera-dalba-2023-copy","title":"Ca' di Press Barbera d'Alba 2023","description":"","brand":"Old World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48546248851679,"sku":null,"price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P2270975.jpg?v=1772234139"},{"product_id":"ca-di-press-langhe-nebbiolo-2023","title":"Ca' di Press Langhe Nebbiolo 2023","description":"","brand":"Old World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48546249015519,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P2270964.jpg?v=1772234058"},{"product_id":"ercole-barbera-del-monferrato-2024-1l","title":"Ercole Barbera del Monferrato 2024 1L","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Land\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonferrato is Barbera's home ground — documentary evidence traces the grape here to 13th-century cathedral records, making it one of the most historically rooted varieties in Piedmont. The zone rolls across clay-limestone hills southeast of the River Po, with vineyards planted at 150 to 400 meters elevation on south-facing slopes. Unlike the more concentrated, oak-aged Barberas of Asti and Alba, Barbera del Monferrato has historically aimed for freshness and drinkability — a style that suits the grape's naturally high acidity and relatively light tannin. Ercole draws from a cooperative of small family growers spread across those same hills, farming vines that average 30 to 50 years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% Barbera, fermented in concrete tanks, aged briefly in stainless steel, bottled in a 1-liter format designed for the table rather than the cellar. The approach is clean and direct: dark cherry, black plum, raspberry, and a savory herb note, with Barbera's signature bright acidity and light tannin frame. No oak, no extraction beyond what the fermentation delivers naturally. This is not a wine you cellar — it's a wine you open on a Tuesday with whatever is on the stove. The liter format makes the decision easy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe People\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErcole is a project created by The Piedmont Guy, a US importer with deep relationships among small Monferrato growers, in collaboration with a long-established local cooperative. The growers follow EU lotta integrata standards, with many certified organic, relying on copper and sulfur rather than systemic chemicals. The cooperative model supports small-scale farmers who might otherwise sell their fruit in bulk. The goal is honest, site-specific Barbera at a price that makes a second bottle the obvious choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePizza margherita, pasta with sausage and tomato, grilled pork chops with salsa verde, or a board of salumi and olives. Barbera's bright acidity handles tomato sauce like almost no other grape. A liter bottle and good company is the full recipe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50138593427679,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P6170426.jpg?v=1781758399"},{"product_id":"scarpa-barbera-dasti-la-bogliona-2020","title":"Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbera was long dismissed as Piedmont's everyday grape, the wine farmers drank while saving their Nebbiolo for special occasions. La Bogliona is Scarpa's argument that Barbera can be as serious as anything in the region. It comes from a single vineyard in the Bogliona locality near Nizza Monferrato, on soils unusually high in sand, close to 40 percent, along with magnesium. Scarpa calls the wine la figlia della sabbia, the daughter of sand, because that sandy ground is what gives it perfume and lift most Barbera lacks, without costing it structure. This is one of the sites that proved Barbera d'Asti could be a great wine, not just a good one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% Barbera. Scarpa treats it exactly as they treat their Barolo and Barbaresco: slow, traditional fermentation in large old truncated wooden vats, then two to three years aging in big oak botti of 2,000 to 10,000 liters, followed by several more years resting in bottle before release. Nothing here is rushed. Expect black cherry, plum, dried violet, tobacco, and sweet spice, with Barbera's signature bright acidity, a fine, savory tannic frame, and a long, layered finish. This drinks with the depth of a serious aged red and can hold for 15 to 25 years. The 2020 vintage was warm but balanced in Piedmont, giving ripe fruit with the acidity Barbera needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntica Casa Vinicola Scarpa was founded in 1854 and has worked from its cellar in Nizza Monferrato since 1880. Its reputation was built by Mario Pesce, one of the first producers anywhere to treat Barbera d'Asti as a wine worth aging, and by cellarmaster Carlo Castino, who made the first great vintages of La Bogliona starting in 1974. The house style has never changed: low yields, long fermentations, aging in large traditional botti rather than new barriques, and patient bottle age before release. The vines are farmed organically, though without formal certification, and Scarpa keeps one of Piedmont's deepest libraries of old-vintage Barbera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbera's acidity makes it one of the great food reds, and a wine this structured can handle rich, hearty cooking. Pour it with brasato or braised short ribs, with agnolotti del plin in a meat sauce, with roasted or grilled red meat, or with an aged cheese like Castelmagno. Its freshness also cuts through fattier dishes like sausage and lentils or a bollito misto. Decant a bottle before serving. The kind of Barbera that quietly makes the case Piedmont has more than one great red grape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Old World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50540750045407,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P7080653.jpg?v=1783568417"},{"product_id":"trediberri-barbera-d-alba-2025","title":"Trediberri Barbera d’Alba 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrediberri is a Barolo house, yet part of its Barbera grows on the far side of the Tanaro. The fruit comes from two places. One is the Torriglione hillside wrapped around the winery in La Morra, at the foot of the estate and facing the Rocche dell'Annunziata, where the soil is compact and clay-rich. The other is Monticello d'Alba in the Roero, on the river's left bank, where a longtime friend of the estate farms sustainably on sandier ground. Clay gives Barbera weight, color, and dark fruit; the Roero sand adds lift and keeps the wine from turning heavy. Put together, they make a Barbera d'Alba red wine with both muscle and snap, a La Morra grower's take on the grape that most Piedmontese actually drink at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrediberri Barbera d'Alba 2025 is 100% Barbera. The vines are thinned every year to hold yields down, and the wine ferments exclusively in cement for about 12 to 15 days before malolactic in cement or steel. After cold stabilization it spends a few months in cement, steel, or fiberglass and is bottled in the April or May after harvest, with no wood at all. The estate describes it bluntly as \"nuda e cruda,\" raw and unpolished: sharp acidity, usually high alcohol, full body, and a shorter finish than its Nebbiolo. That honesty is the appeal. Expect black cherry, ripe plum, and blackberry, a juicy, mouthwatering middle, and a clean, tangy close. In 2025 the Langhe saw a cool, wet spring, early flowering, and a steady summer; Barbera was picked in early to mid-September, with yields below initial estimates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anchor at Trediberri is Federico Oberto, who comes from several generations of farmers. He met Renato Ratti in 1970 and worked as cellar master at the Ratti winery in La Morra until he retired in 2005. Retirement did not take. Two years later he joined his son Nicola and their friend Vladimiro Rambaldi in buying vineyard land in Berri, and folded in the family's own holdings in Torriglione and Rocche dell'Annunziata. The estate calls him its pillar. Nicola, trained in economics, learned winemaking working beside him and runs the estate today; Vladimiro, a Turin banker with a soft spot for natural wine, handles the finances. Even the labels are local: La Morra artist Pierflavio Gallina designs them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe estate's own pick is bollito misto alla piemontese, and it's the right call: Barbera's sharp acidity slices through boiled beef, tongue, and cotechino, especially with a spoonful of bagnetto verde. At home, try baked rigatoni with Italian sausage and tomato sauce, where acid meets acid and the fruit stands up to the fat. Pan-seared pork chops with peperonata work the same way, the sweet peppers echoing the plummy fruit. Finish with young Toma and a few slices of salame. 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