2019 Barbera d'Asti, La Crena, Vietti, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Barbera
Ready - youthful (Drink 2023 - 2039)
Monica Larner
93/100
Product: 20198148081

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2019 Barbera d'Asti, La Crena, Vietti, Piedmont, Italy
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Ready - youthful (2023 - 2039)
Grape List Barbera
Body Full Bodied
Producer Vietti

Critics reviews

Monica Larner 93/100

Starting with the 2019 vintage, Vietti's Barolos and Barberas are all certified organic. The 2019 Barbera d'Asti La Crena with 10,000 bottles made) is a darkly concentrated wine with abundant black fruit and dark spice. 

Fruit for La Crena comes from the heart of the Nizza region that is dedicated to the Barbera grape. In this case, old vines were planted between 1932 and 1935. The results are aged in both barrique and botte, and the wine is syrupy thick and powerful with 15% alcohol) on the close.

Drink 2022 - 2032

Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (Jun 2022)

About this wine

Barbera

Barbera is planted extensively in Piedmont and south-west Lombardy and accounts for over 50% of the wine produced in the region. The majority is sold simply as Barbera del Piemonte, but the best wines are the DOCs, Barbera d'Alba and Barbera d'Asti. It ripens late (after Dolcetto but before Nebbiolo).
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Barbera d’Asti

Barbera d’Asti

Known for its vibrant acidity, rich fruit flavours, and versatility, Barbera d'Asti is a red wine produced in the Asti region of Piedmont, Italy, characterised by its deep ruby colour and medium body. It often exhibits notes of red and black fruits, such as cherry, raspberry, and blackberry, along with hints of spice and earthiness. While they can be enjoyed young for their fresh and fruity profile, the wines can age gracefully, developing greater complexity and smoothness over time.
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Vietti

The Vietti family has been producing wine for four generations in Castiglione Falletto, at the heart of the Barolo area. Carlo Vietti founded the winery in the 1800s and his son Mario and the next generations carried on his legacy, focusing on improving the production. Then, in 1952, Alfredo Currado (Luciana Vietti’s husband) was one of the first to select and vinify grapes from single vineyards (such as Brunate, Rocche and Villero). This was a radical concept at the time, but today virtually every vintner making Barolo and Barbaresco wines offers “single vineyard” or “cru-designated” wines. Today, the winery is in the hands of Luca Currado Vietti and is considered to be one of the very best Piedmont producers. Their wines are highly sought-after, with beautifully designed labels as well as wonderful wine. In 1970, Alfredo and Luciana decided to support to some local artists and have selected labels turned into artworks. Artists such as Gianni Gallo, Eso Peluzzi, Pietro Cascella, Mino Maccari, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Claudio Bonichi, Valerio Miroglio, Pierflavio Gallina, Gioxe de Micheli, have had their works displayed to a much wider audience via the bottles of Vietti wines. In 1996 the most recent artist series label came from American realist Janet Fish on Vietti’s 1990 Barolo “Villero.” The whole collection of artist labels was shown at the Museum of Modern Art of New York
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