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2010 Ginkgo Forest Barbera

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Round and juicy, this wine puts fruit ahead of wood for a friendly easy drinker. Raspberry, vanilla, and a touch of smoke show on the nose. Cherries and raspberries, with a small sweet kick of blueberries, show on the palate. Background flavors include vanilla, smoke, and cayenne. Drink with mozzarella

Five Bottles: A New Old Way to Evaluate Wine

Meg Houston Maker
Features
6 min read
There is a small fraternity of bottles that have, over the years, ebbed and flowed as my family’s house wine. They’re mostly red—Côtes du Rhône, Vacqueyras, Barbera, Valpolicella—plus a little white and rosé. All are under $20, and even cheaper by the case. These are table wines, drunk with meals

Taking Barbera Beyond Blends in California

Robert Ehlert
Feature Stories
5 min read
For this year’s second annual Barbera Festival, held in California’s Amador County, winemakers brought samples of some 85 expressions of this highly drinkable varietal. They came up from Lodi, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz and over from Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma to merge with a majority of Sierra

Italy in Sonoma

Shannon Jones
Feature Stories
4 min read
Sangiovese, barbera, primitivo…the classic Italian grape varieties most cultivated across Italy. But grown in Sonoma, California? They are and have been dating back to the late 1800’s and thriving today. The arrival of Italian grape varieties in Sonoma can be traced to 1881 and the founding of the Italian Swiss

How Barbera Stole My Heart

Robert Ehlert
Feature Stories
3 min read
I like to joke that some really hot Red Zin broke up my marriage with beer. But in the next breath I tell people that now, as a free man, I am having an affair with an aristocratic Italian beauty:-read more-

2009 Borgogno Barbera d’Alba Superiore

Remy Charest
Wine Reviews
1 min read
All over Europe, 2009 often yielded some ripe and expressive wines with intense aromatics yet good balance—we’re talking ripe, but not overheated. The 2009 Borgogno Barbera d’Alba Superiore is no exception. It shows gorgeous and intense aromas and flavors of-read more-

Blogging Kerfuffle at Barbera Week 2010

Fredric Koeppel
Features
5 min read
The organizers of “Barbera Week 2010,” this year’s version of the annual festival held in Asti, came up with a concept to give the event a contemporary slant: invite a team of bloggers to participate in the tastings and winery-read more-