The 2017 Barbera d'Alba represents a very successful match between grape and vintage. The 2017 summer season was extremely hot and dry, but Barbera loves heat and sunshine. This is a wine of enormous richness and intensity, both aromatically and in terms of texture. The bouquet offers dark fruit, blackberry preserves, spice and moist chewing tobacco. This is a medium- to full-bodied red with chewy, succulent fruit flavors. Some 45,000 bottles were made.