BARBERA
Considered as a common wine for a long time, today Barbera can boast an excellent quality able to meet the needs of the most refined palate.
The ridges around Tortona are full of this vines, with their garnet red bunches with little, sweet and juicy grapes.
Its birth dates back to ancient times and it is likely to derive from an ancient autochthonous vine seed already cultivated in the Roman Age on the high grounds between Tortona and Casteggio, beside Via Postumia and on the hills between Tortona and Acqui along Via Aemilia Scauri.
Colli Tortonesi Barbera
Specific features
- Colour: bright ruby red, which become more and more light with aging;
- Aroma: pleasantly winy, persistent and distinctive;
- Flavour: fresh, dry, savoury and sometime lively, which becomes full-bodied, round and harmonic with aging;
- Minimum alcoholic content: 11,5°;
- Minimum total acidity: 4,5 g/l;
- Minimum dry extract: 22g/l.
Grapes and production areas
Barbera grapes: 85% at least. Also other black berry grapes, non aromatic, suitable for cultivation in Piedmont, can also be used.
- Total specialized surface (sq m) : 8.235.605
- N° of plants specialized surface : 2.403.343
- Prod. Pot. uva: 7.412.044
Colli Tortonesi Barbera Superiore
Specific features
- Colour: ruby red with garnet red reflections;
- Aroma: pleasantly winy, with a distinctive persistent aroma;
- Flavour: dry, savoury, full-bodied, with aging it assumes a wooden aroma;
- Minimum alcoholic content 12,5°;
- Minimum total acidity: 4,5 g/l;
- Minimum dry extract: 23 g/l;
Grapes and production areas
It is obtained from a percentage of Barbera grapes which varies from 85% to 100%. An aging period of 13 months is required, 6 months in wooden containers.
- Total specialized surface (sq m) : 6.464.670
- N° of plants specialized surface : 1.885.583
- Prod. Pot. uva: 5.171.736
Food matches and serving suggestions
Colli Tortonesi Barbera and Colli Tortonesi Barbera Superiore wines both represent a good alternative within the big family of wines produced from the grapes of the Barbera vines, due to their distinctive aroma and the dry, fresh, lively and savoury taste. Recommended with stewed meats, boiled meats, roasted red meats such as beef, lamb, duck.
