{"id":2968,"date":"2018-12-01T01:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T01:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2018-12-01T21:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T21:11:16","slug":"house-barbera-bosco-agostino-barbera-dalba-volupta-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2018\/12\/01\/house-barbera-bosco-agostino-barbera-dalba-volupta-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"‘House’ Barbera: Bosco Agostino Barbera d’Alba Volupta 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbera is one of Piedmont\u2019s great go-to wines.\u00a0 Steaming plate of pasta? Barbera.\u00a0 Hearty lasagna?\u00a0 Barbera.\u00a0 A good, ripe Barbera can hit it with a burger and fries as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the juice.\u00a0 Barbera can be fussy to grow.\u00a0 The acids can be too high and, when the vintage isn\u2019t cooperative, you can get the lifeless examples of 2013 and 2014.\u00a0 The thing is, most top Piedmont estates grow some Barbera.\u00a0 It\u2019s what\u2019s for dinner.\u00a0 But so often it is an afterthought to the more famous Nebbiolo grown higher on the hill.\u00a0\u00a0 But there are a few guys that do take their little wines as seriously as their flagships and one of them we have been working with for a long time is Agostino Bosco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Year in and year out Andrea Bosco seems to stuff more fruit into his Barbera than almost anyone we can think of.\u00a0 That riper, somewhat plump palate has an almost New World feel to it, yet the personality of the fruit itself is unmistakably Italian.<\/p>\n

As we mentioned, we have sold many vintages of this, but the Bosco Agostino Barbera d’Alba Volupta 2015 <\/strong><\/a>might be the juiciest yet.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t more people know about this producer?\u00a0 Well, first off, this isn\u2019t some fancy Piedmont estate trying to pass itself off as a \u2018small family farm\u2019.\u00a0 This actually is<\/em> a small family farm with good holdings and a good dose of passion.<\/p>\n

Second, they are not with one of those large international import companies that make sure they have all of their wines in front of critics.\u00a0 This hands-on operation doesn\u2019t have the staff to do that.\u00a0\u00a0 So you see little in the way of press, though this did get a 91 from James Suckling and comments, \u201cPlenty of blue fruit, slate and violets to this Barbera on the nose as well as hints of resin. Full body, fine acidity and a fruity finish. Drink now.\u201d\u00a0<\/em> But this wine delivers in the glass as a compelling, easy going, authentic mouth full, especially this year.<\/p>\n

The estate itself consists of four hectares in the La Morra area divided among Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Dolcetto.\u00a0 The family existed as growers for decades until they decided to make their own wines in 1979.\u00a0 This Barbera is a blend of two different vineyards, one with 20-year-old vines in clay and limestone and a southwest exposition, the other 30-year-old vines in tufa and limestone with a southeast exposition.\u00a0 The blend yields a wine with ripe dark red and black fruit, sufficient but never intrusive acidity, not a lot of evident tannin, and a minerality that adds an interesting textural underpinning.\u00a0 \u00a0In other words, perfectly tasty yet deceptively serious Barbera.<\/p>\n

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Barbera is one of Piedmont\u2019s great go-to wines.\u00a0 Steaming plate of pasta? Barbera.\u00a0 Hearty lasagna?\u00a0 Barbera.\u00a0 A good, ripe Barbera can hit it with a burger and fries as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the juice.\u00a0 Barbera can be fussy to grow.\u00a0 The acids can be too high and, when the vintage isn\u2019t cooperative, you can get … Continue reading “‘House’ Barbera: Bosco Agostino Barbera d’Alba Volupta 2015”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[161,438,316,82,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}