Lush and expressive, this red exhibits plum, black cherry, sweet spice and toasty oak aromas and flavors. Nicely integrated and supple in texture, with a warm, lingering spicy aftertaste. Drink now through 2028. 5,000 cases made, 1,500 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Piedmont / Barbera d'Alba Select to Add

The Conterno Fantino 2021 Barbera d'Alba Vignota (a certified organic wine) shows a lot of pulp, richness and texture that is woven with generous blackberry and dark fruit flavors. This wine offers a lot of natural intensity thanks to warm growing conditions and marl and limestone soils. This is a 37,000-bottle release.

The Conterno Fantino 2020 Barbera d'Alba Vignota is extra generous and rich in this hot vintage, with lots of syrupy cherry fruit and blackberry confit. This wine offers a classic interpretation of Barbera, a native grape of Northern Italy that loves heat and sunshine. It thrives in limestone and marl soils in this case. Vignota (with precisely 23,432 bottles on the market) is soft and velvety in texture, with some sweet fruit on the close.

Packed with juicy black cherry, black currant and violet flavors, this Barbera is silky and vibrant, converging nicely on the finish with a tangy, mineral impression. Drink now through 2025. 2,500 cases made.??–BS??Region: Italy / Piedmont / Barbera d'Alba Select to Add

The 2019 Barbera d'Alba Vignota exhibits a dark ruby color with lively and healthy color intensity. The bouquet shows similar vitality with honest aromas that navigate the realms of wild cherry, Japanese plum and pressed rose. To the palate, this wine delivers solid fruit that is crisp and almost crunchy in texture. That more angular or sculpted quality to the fruit is the wine's most interesting characteristic in my opinion. Sample it with blue cheese or Gorgonzola on crackers. This was a production of 19,600 bottles.