Bruna Grimaldi Scassa Barbera d'Alba Superiore, Piedmont, Italy

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Bruna Grimaldi and her family make a fine bottle of Barbera with the flexibility to pair with your favorite home-cooked meals. The 2021 Barbera d'Alba Superiore Scassa offers medium-rich fruit with aromas and flavors that are best described as succulent or appetizing. Tasting this wine made me wonder what was for dinner, and that's always a good sign. Bold black cherry and blackberry cede to pretty freshness. This is a 20,000-bottle release.

Rich, vibrant and silky, featuring blackberry, blueberry, chocolate and a hint of almond. Makes an impact from beginning to end, with terrific sapidity on the lingering finish. Drink now. 2,000 cases made, 300 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Piedmont / Barbera d'Alba Select to Add

I love the name of this wine. Scassa means "to break apart," and the moniker pays tribute to the difficulties of preparing the land for this planting of Barbera vines. The Bruna Grimaldi 2020 Barbera d'Alba Superiore Scassa shows a rich, dark ruby and nicely concentrated appearance. It opens to sweet cherry and plum and follows up with light spice and a hint of wet earth or powdered licorice. Production is 20,000 bottles.

Named after the difficulties of ripping up the land to ready it for agriculture (to "scassare" in Italian), the Bruna Grimaldi 2018 Barbera d'Alba Superiore Scassa is a dark and concentrated expression with sweet cherry liqueur and blackberry confit. The wine is soft and yielding with a thick textural approach that wraps nicely over the palate. The wine shows so much fruit weight and density, you might try a contrasting food pairing with spicy, smoky or barbecued flavors, including some pasta or pie crust to help soak up the 15% alcohol. This is a well-priced release of 25,000 bottles.

You get fabulous value here. The Bruna Grimaldi 2017 Barbera d'Alba Superiore Scassa is a dark and thickly concentrated red wine that would make a great choice with savory kitchen favorites like fried chicken or pork roast. The natural darkness of the wine is nicely broken up by the acidic freshness and those pure fruit aromas. It ages in tonneaux for one year, but the oak is seamlessly integrated. Bruna Grimaldi and her team have created a fine Barbera, with 25,000 bottles on the market now. "Scassa" comes from the Italian verb "to break apart," and the name refers to the farming hardships that always result in very low yields. For that reason, this wine is always released as a Barbera d'Alba Superiore, which requires extra months of aging time.