VinoBuy: 2009 Montaribaldi Barbera d'Asti: Is dinner ready yet?
2009 MONTARIBALDI "La Consolina" Barbera d'Asti
$13.95 bottle....$138.00 case
It's hard not to mention again how much I love Barbera. Perhaps the best food wine in the world....lovely cherry scents and flavors...juicy texture. It's all here in this bargain '09 from Montaribaldi. Check out once again our man MK's rave review: "It's an experience many travelers have had. You go to some location and you're served a wine at dinner. It's inexpensive and you exclaim, "This is wonderful stuff. Why can't we get this at home?" This is that wine -- at least if you were traveling in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. The "La Consolina" 2009 from Montaribaldi is precisely the kind of really good barbera that you'd be served in a restaurant in the Piedmont region. Young, fresh and brimming with flavor, it slides right down with your pasta or pizza and before you know it the bottle is empty...and you're looking for more. Worth noting is that this also is an accurate reflection of the style of barbera that comes from the Asti zone, which is to say silky, refreshingly crisp and devoid of unneeded oak or any other winemaking flourishes that signal "importance." If this wine were human you'd say it had confidence and charm!"