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Paitin di Pasquero-Elia Campolive Barbera 2018

Piemonte

Regular price $32.99

2018 Serra Barbera Superiore 'Campolive'
Paitin
Barbaresco, Piemonte
$29.99 on 4+ (code 4saves3)
$32.99 reg

93 Vinous (Galloni)
The 2018 Barbera d'Alba Superiore Campolive is fabulous. Rich and layered, yet also light on its feet, the 2018 is compelling right out of the gate. Older readers will remember the days when Campolive was virtually black in color, jammy and oaky. Today's Campolive delivers plenty of flavor intensity, but with far more elegance and class. Ripe red cherry/plum, spice, blood orange, cinnamon and rose petal meld into the finish. This is a fabulous showing in a vintage that was not especially favorable for Barbera. Gorgeous. The 2020 spent 16 months in cask. A reduction of the time in oak is another positive choice.Winery: Campolive is a very steep plot on the border between Serraboella and Bricco di Neive, under the road od the Montà del Bricco. Already named as such from the monks who in the past owned this site: the field of the olive (“campo dell’oliva”). Probably centuries ago dedicated to the olive trees, since its protected and warm position.

Grape: 100% Barbera d'Alba
Vineyard: Serraboella Southwest at 250-270 masl
Origin: Serraboella di Neive e Rivoli di Alba
Soil: Very white soils, with a rather gross and sandy texture respect to higher part of the hill. The subsoil here is the one of the Formazioni di Lequio
Viticulture: Organic with the sole use of sulphur and copper natural compound, manual or mechanic mowing to avoid herbicides, harvest is exclusively manual
Winemaking: Barbera is all vinified with the same philosophy: subject to pressing and destemming then he ferments and macerate two weeks in stainless steel. At the end of the winter he is brought to the wood barrels where he stays for minimum 1 year. Barrels volumes is normally 10 hectoliters, or recent barrels of greater dimensions, made of Slavonian wood

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