Vietti Barbera d'Asti 2009

Now, I get it! We have had this Barbera d'Asti from Vietti before and I have to be honest and say that I preferred the Vietti Barbera d'Alba. This was before we went on our quest to drink Barbera with the intention that we may be planting some on our land. When we went to do our homework and visited the land of Barbera in the U.S., located in the Sierra Foothills of California, both Ann Kraemer and Dick Cooper mentioned the high acidity associated with growing Barbera in the foothills. We were a little perplexed because the Sierra Foothills is warm, but Ann mentioned that the nights are cool so the malic acid doesn't get respired! Ann shared with us her bottle of Yorba Barbera and this Vietti Barbera d'Asti reminds me of Ann's wine...well balanced execution of fruit and acids. This is not a fruity wine but if you like some acidic counterpoint, you will like this Barbera, full of dark cherries on the nose.