Elvio Cogno's 2022 Barbera d'Alba Bricco dei Merli trades power for finesse. Dark ripe cherry and cinchona spice weave through a soft, enveloping palate that begs for food. This is Barbera as a sommelier's wine, not a showboat.
Winemaker Notes
The 2022 harvest gave birth to a Barbera d'Alba Bricco dei Merli that makes finesse its signature. It is a wine in which the notes of dark and ripe cherry blend masterfully with spicy and herbaceous hints, in particular of cinchona and ink. On the palate, it is enveloping and particularly gastronomic, because of its energy and its vibrant freshness.
About the Producer
The Cogno family has been making wine for four generations in Piedmont. In 1990, Elvio Cogno left a long and fruitful partnership with the venerable Barolo producer Marcarini in La Morra and bought a splendid, historic 18th-century farmhouse on the top of Bricco Ravera, a hill near Novello in the Langhe area. For the next 20 years, he devoted himself to the winemaking traditions handed down to him by his father and grandfather. Elvio, in turn, has now passed the torch to his daughter, Nadia, and her husband, Valter Fissore, who had worked beside Elvio for 25 years.
