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2010 Rocca dell'Olmo
Barbera D'Asti
Barbera
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Flavor Intensity
Medium
Tasting Notes
Blackberry, Boysenberry, Cedar, Raspberry
Food Pairings
Red Meat, BBQ, Pizza & Pasta
Value
$20.00
Average Retail
$8.00
Ripe raspberry, blackberry, and boysenberry fruit is balanced out by cedar and followed by notes of strawberry, raisin, chocolate, and oak. Finishes dry, with a pleasant, vapor-filled blowback.
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Getting tired of that same old red wine? Just you know, going back and going back. Maybe you even use the wine finder? But you stick within that Merlot, that Cab or that what else Pino? Something like that? You just want to get up off that track? Of course you do. Most people do in the world of wine. So, this is what you're gonna do. You're gonna go grab this 2010 Rocca dell Olmo Barbera d'Asti, okay. Barbera d'Asti a lot of people wonder what is that? Well, Barbera is the grape. Barbera is a red wine grape big in northern Italy. A great red wine grape. d'Asti just means of Asti, a place in northern Italy. So, it could say Barbera d'Milan or Barbera d'Florence, but Asti is known for making great Barberas. You're getting a great eight dollar Barbera that really is a twenty dollar fine wine value. There's some, a lot of people would taste this blind and would say twenty to twenty five bucks. We've pegged it at twenty, made it conservative. We're up over double your money. This is fine, just a beautiful wine especially if you haven't had a Barbera.

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I might not even try this wine, but we have to try them all. And what if we discover? Wow! This wine is absolutely delicious. It just brings all kinds a delightful fruit flavors together. It's got great balance. Very pleasing and we're talking about ripe raspberry and blackberry balancing each other out. A kinda on the beautiful fruit flavor side. Boysenberry, cedar also helping the balance out. There's a nice fine wine vapor blow back in this wine. It is very delicious. I agree, at eight bucks it's hard to believe. This is one to try. Now that we've discovered it and now you know about it.

Yeah, and now you're gonna know a little bit more. Why does this get kicked up into approaching that fine wine area? It's the notes of things in here. There's a note of strawberry. There's a note of chocolate. There's a note of oak. There's a note a raisin. Raisin in the good way. That just nice little sweet undercurrent to give this wine a little more fullness. That's why. That's why it's two thumbs up to the 2010 Rocca dell Olmo Barbera d'Asti. Go find it and go drink it. Really, really nice.