Barbera del Monferrato Superiore DOC "Le Cave"

For its plentiful productivity and its sound adaptability to the enviroment, the Barbera vine is the most known in Piedmont.

It's a wine with a marked personality and high good crop years; after a suitable ageing assumes, in fragrance and taste, characteristic like Barolo.

Technical file

Vine: Barbera

Exposure: South - South West

Soil: calcareus, alkalin, it prefers not much asphixiated soils. Row with "Guyot" pruning.

Alcohol content: 14%

Colour: fasted ruby with garnet-red and sometimes violet reflexes more or less intense.

Aroma: intense, fruity, with black-currant, raspberry and forest fruits aftertaste.

Taste: full, warm, lightly citric in a new wine, but that leaves place to sapid with the bottle's ageing.

Best with main courses, meat with sauces and with fresh cheeses.