Giacosa Fratelli Barbera d’Alba Bussia 2022
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- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Someone mentioned this as a wine for everyday drinking, if this is everyday drinking then bring it on. Too often Barbera is dismissed as a quaffer, but spend time around Piedmont and you’ll soon discover it is anything but (as one friend says, if you don’t like Barbera, you don’t like puppies). A gorgeous, vibrant purple/red colour, aromas of liqueur cherries swirl around the glass while spices and bay leaves add to the early complexity. This is sleek, ripe, seamless and with very fine tannins. Bright, with a lingering, balanced finish – this is delicious. Love it for drinking over the next five to eight years. Every day would be fine with me.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
