Bava Piano Alto Barbera D’Asti Superiore

Description

Bava Piano Alto Barbera D’Asti Superiore

Its purple color, the concentration of various substances is clearly very high. You won’t experience a sense of surprise but a dense and awaited pleasure: a spicy layer that envelops a pulpy heart of fleshy and ripe currant. The intense aroma, the expert oenologic execution leading to a not overly tannic softness, and other quality reverberations of this expressive and majestic wine.

The grapes in PianoAlto have an excellent concentation of sugar and anthocyanins, while the tannins are sweet as they should be for good Barbera grapes when they are ripe. Grapes are hand-picked and fermented for a week with the skins. Long period macerations followed by a second fermatation in steel vats where the wine remains to decant until the end of winter. The ageing in the custom-made 1500-litre-wooden double-vats starts in the spring and lasts for 18 months.

Our PianoAlto estates in Crena are connected to the farmhouse on the hill of Crena, overlooking the delightful village of Agliano and its thermal springs in the valley. The vineyards on the hilltop are flat; in our oldest vineyard we produce PianoAlto, a Barbera d’Asti Superiore that boasts the appellation DOCG NIZZA, which is the best area for this great red. A well-known wine-maker, possibly the greatest connoisseur of the crus of Nizza, said that in PianoAlto of Crena a great wine is historically produced, or rather ‚Äúa balm‚Äù, as he defines it. The importance of the soil and of the position resulting in the final reflections of the wine are at the origin of the cru of PianoAlto. The Piedmontese double-vat for the ageing enhences its original charcateristics and its being very distinct. The logo on the label is the strong yet graphically simple sign of the brick brise-soleil on the barn of the farmhouse.