2018 | Vigneti Massa Barbera "Monleale" | Piedmont | Italy Andrew Murray Vineyards a recipe for delicate

a recipe for delicate

the fruit here is gloriously dark and deep and is wrapped in aromas and flavors of exotic spice

but subdued and very pretty

accessible tannins

with a rock solid core of fruit

2018 | Vigneti Massa Barbera "Monleale" | Piedmont | Italy Andrew Murray Vineyards a recipe for delicateWalter Massa's benchmark Barbera the man who saved Timorasso, working his home turf in Colli Tortonesi. Walter Massa is one of Piedmont's cult figures, the vigneron who single handedly revived the Timorasso grape and put the Colli Tortonesi on the map. "Monleale" is his benchmark Barbera, named for his home village 100% Barbera from a cool, late ripening site, given real levage to make a serious, age worthy red rather than a simple quaffer. Barbera