2007 Barbera d'Alba Gallina

Wine Details
Producer

La Spinetta

Place of Origin

Italy

Neive

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Barbera

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2013 - 2017

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This is a highly successful set of new releases from La Spinetta. The wines show great balance and class across the board.

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Giorgio Rivetti, whose low crop levels normally enable him to harvest early, told me that he views the 2006s as "heavier than the 2007s." He believes that the 2006 barberas and his Pin bottling were almost too fleshy and smooth and could have used more energy. He picked early in 2007, especially for his barbera. Needless to say, these two vintage have both yielded a number of very rich, creamy, fruit-driven wines here. Rivetti told me he carried out three green harvests in 2005 to ripen the fruit very early, and then did a strict selection of the best fruit at the harvest. These wines, which rated highly back in Issue 135, are now showing beautifully, according to Rivetti. Incidentally, since my last visit here, Rivetti has established his own distribution network in the critical U.S. market to handle his own wines from Piemonte and Tuscany as well as wines from a number of other producers in these regions.