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Barbera d'Alba Mucin 2009 Carlo Giacosa
Barbera d'Alba Mucin 2009 Carlo Giacosa
Bottle Price: £11.95
Case Price: £136.2
- Country: Italy
- Region: Piemonte
- Grape Variety: Barbera
- Alcohol: 14%
- Bottle Size: 75cl
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A full fruited nose. Rich, juicy fruit with a hint of spice and integrated tannins gives a sweet defined finish.
Have with: pork, quail, pasta and soft ripened cheeses.
Carlo Giacosa - Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
A very small family estate of just five hectares run by Carlo Giacosa, his wife Carla and their daughter, Maria Grazia. Enthusiasts should note that their vineyards are surrounded by those of the legendary Gaja estate. Producing only 35,000 bottles, they are traditional in style yet use new and pre-used barriques for aging their wines.
Unsurprisingly the high quality of these red wines has been recognised by publications such as The Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast.
Italian Wines 2005 comments: 'Nebbiolo Maria Grazia is a fragrant, powerfully structured 'quasi-Barbaresco' whose smooth tannins and outstanding harmony stand comparison with the big two’.
The Piedmont region is located in the foothills of the Alps, in the northwest corner of Italy, forming its border with France and Switzerland.
Barbera is the most widely-planted grape in the region, but Nebbiolo and Dolcetto account for a significant portion of the area's red wine production as well. With white wines, Moscato is the most prominent with its sparkling and frizzante style wines. Other notable white wines include styles made from the Cortese grape in Gavi as well as blends of Cortese with Arneis in the Langhe hills.
The Barbera grape is the most widely planted variety in all of the Piedmont and makes a juicy, muscular red wine that is not as tannic as Barolo and Barbaresco. It is grown in nearly every major wine making region of the Piedmont but seems to do best near the towns of Alba and Asti. Some producers are experimenting with blending Barbera with Nebbiolo to combine the former's fruitiness with the later's structure. The light fruitiness of wines from the Dolcetto grape has caused some wine writers to describe it as the Italian version of Beaujolais. The wines have a sense of spiciness to them with little acid and tannins. They are able to be drunk relatively young and tend to be the every day drinking wines of the Piedmontese.
