2018 | Vigneti Massa Barbera "Monleale" | Piedmont | Italy Cassis bramble berry compote

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with a long and persistent finish

Wonderfully intense

The palate is ripe with flavors of baked black plum and clove flavors

wood cinder and baked apple notes combine to great aromatic effect

2018 | Vigneti Massa Barbera "Monleale" | Piedmont | Italy Cassis bramble berry compoteWalter Massa's benchmark Barbera the man who saved Timorasso, working his home turf in Colli Tortonesi. Walter Massa is one of Piedmont's cult figures, the vigneron who single handedly revived the Timorasso grape and put the Colli Tortonesi on the map. "Monleale" is his benchmark Barbera, named for his home village 100% Barbera from a cool, late ripening site, given real levage to make a serious, age worthy red rather than a simple quaffer. Barbera