Barbera-Is it the (perfect) red grape?
Joel Butler MW 2.2 1.7.2024
“Barbera is one of Italy’s greatest wine grapes.”-Roberto Conterno, quoted in:
D'Agata, Ian. Italy's Native Wine Grape Terroirs (p. 47). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.
Barbera . . . "the Italian variety that best reproduces its characteristics in California"-
Guido Rossati, 1900.
Hyperbole aside, when I consider all of the customers, rea…
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