Hilberg-Pasquero - Hilberg Pasquero Barbera d'Alba Mon Seij 2017 750ml (750ml)

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Producer	Hilberg-Pasquero
Country	Italy
Region	Piemonte
Varietal	Barbera
Vintage	2017
Sku	RD13603
Size	750ml

 

Named for the length of the lunar cycle, this '16 Barbera d'Alba is delicious, layering its crisp red and brambly blue fruits with warm tobacco, new leather, violet petals, warm loam, licorice and spices. There's plenty of Barbera's trademark acidity, but it's complemented by lush dry extract, a sweet inner perfume, and a complex, persistent finish--this wine is terrific! Grapes derive from the estate's southwestern-facing sandy, clayey Barbera vineyard; after fermenting for five days in temperature-controlled stainless steel with natural yeasts, the wine ages for a year in stainless and two months in bottle prior to release.

Annette Hilberg and Michelangelo Pasquero teamed up in marriage and in the vineyard to found Hilberg Pasquero, the current iteration of this Piemonte winery, whose roots stretch back for generations. Michelangelo, or Mikio to people who know him, was looking for education in biodynamic growing methods, and his path led him first to Sweden and then to Germany, where he met Annette, a former nurse; together they began estate-bottling wines more than three decades ago. Hilberg Pasquero takes an utterly natural approach in the vineyards and in the cantina, eschewing the use of pesticides, copper and even sulfites when possible, relying on the advice and rhythms of nature in their viticulture and viniculture. The results are breathtakingly pure, vibrant wines that seem to sing with the very soils of their Roero estate.