Vietti - Barbera d'Asti La Crena Superiore Nizza 2019 (750ml)

 
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Producer Vietti
Country Italy
Region Piedmont
Subregion Langhe
Varietal Barbera
Vintage 2019
Sku 5084
Size 750ml

Wine Advocate: 93 Points

Starting with the 2019 vintage Vietti's Barolos and Barberas are all certified organic. The 2019 Barbera d'Asti La Crena (with 10000 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. Vietti is one of the most dynamic wineries in the appellation. Starting with the 2019 vintage the entire production of Barolo and Barbera is certified organic. This set of new releases comes with three big surprises. There are three new wines in their inaugural release: the single-vineyard Barolo Cerequio (with fruit from La Morra) the Barolo Monvigliero from Verduno and the Barbaresco Masseria now entirely made with fruit from Roncaglie. The Monvigliero is a wine of special interest as it is made with 60% whole cluster fruit in collaboration with colleagues over at Borgogna. I also recently read that Luca Currado Vietti actually created a shared investment in Monvigliero in 2018 (for an 8000-square meter plot in the MGA) with a group of 10 American investors. Luca could not buy the property outright but under the terms of the shared agreement the investor group retains 45% of the production each year released under the Vietti label and Luca is left with the remaining 55%. The question is: What will he do with his share of that precious fruit?