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Barbera-Is it the (perfect) red grape?

Barbera-Is it the (perfect) red grape?

Joel Butler MW 2.2 1.7.2024

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“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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