Vietti, Barbera d’Asti “Tre Vigne”
Vietti, Barbera d’Asti “Tre Vigne”

Vietti, Barbera d’Asti “Tre Vigne”

Piedmont, Italy 2019 (750mL)
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Vietti, Barbera d’Asti “Tre Vigne”

Vietti is one of the most influential estates in Barolo, dating to 1800. Its labyrinthine cellars snake under the village of Castiglione Falletto, and winemaker/proprietor Luca Currado Vietti is well-known to American wine lovers. In addition to some of the longest-lived Barolo wines of all, the estate produces benchmark examples of just about every Piedmontese white and red imaginable.


As its appellation name indicates, this wine is sourced from three Vietti estate vineyards in Agliano Terme, in the province of Asti, and includes from their most prized Barbera site, “La Crena.” As in the Langhe hills further south, the soils are a mix of clay/limestone marl and sand, although the clay percentage tends to be a little higher around Asti.


After harvest, the hand-harvested Barbera grapes are subjected to a cold maceration on skins in stainless steel tanks, followed by a fermentation on ambient yeasts that lasts for about two weeks. The aging period for the finished wine is an impressive 18 months, carried out in a combination of French oak barriques, larger casks, and stainless steel tanks.


This is a big-boned edition of “Tre Vigne,” full of saturated red and black fruit, a hint of toasty oak, and lots of earth. Dense garnet red in color, it gives off heady aromas of Bing cherry, red currant, black plum, coffee grounds, dark chocolate, and loamy earth. Gutsy, medium-plus in body, and approaching Nebbiolo complexity. Serve with wine-braised meats.

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Italy

Northwestern Italy

Piedmont

Italy’s Piedmont region is really a wine “nation”unto itself, producing world-class renditions of every type of wine imaginable: red, white, sparkling, sweet...you name it! However, many wine lovers fixate on the region’s most famous appellations—Barolo and Barbaresco—and the inimitable native red that powers these wines:Nebbiolo.

Tuscany

Chianti

The area known as “Chianti” covers a major chunk of Central Tuscany, from Pisa to Florence to Siena to Arezzo—and beyond. Any wine with “Chianti” in its name is going to contain somewhere between 70% to 100% Sangiovese, and there are eight geographically specific sub-regions under the broader Chianti umbrella.

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