Ruby-red color with aromas of red-ripe cherries and vanilla. Notes of violets with a round body. On the palate, it shows bright acidity and sweet tannins with a balanced integration of oak. Good complexity and a lingering cherry finish.
Winemaker Notes
The Langhe area of Piedmont is often associated with Nebbiolo grapes, but in the past many of the vineyards were also planted to Barbera. Vietti's "Trevìe" Barbera d’Alba (formally known as Tre Vigne) continues the wineries long history by sourcing the grapes for this wine from vineyards in Castiglione Falletto, Monforte d’Alba, and La Morra. The wine is aged for one year using a combination of stainless steel tanks, large oak casks, and barriques. Matured in the bottle for another four months.
Professional Ratings
89
VinousThe 2023 Barbera d'Alba Trevie is packed with inky dark fruit, licorice, cloves, chocolate and baking spices. Plush and layered, with enveloping contours, this captures all the signatures of Barberas from Alba.
About the Producer
Located in the heart of the Langhe hills, at the top of the village of Castiglione Falletto, the Vietti wine cellar was founded in the late 1800's by Carlo Vietti. The estate has gradually grown over time, and today the vineyard holdings include some of the most highly prized terroirs within the Barolo and Barbaresco winegrowing areas. Although they had been making wine for four generations, the turning point came at the end of the 1950's when Luciana Vietti married winemaker and art connoisseur Alfredo Currado, whose intuitions - from the production of one of the first Barolo crus (1961 - Roc…
