TRINCHERO, Barbera D’Asti, “Vigna del Noce”
Certified Organic
This old winery in Agliano Terme is situated in Vianoce, an ancient-hamlet including a peasant house and a church. Specializing in Barbera, the cousins Trinchero now make one of the longest-lived and most profound examples of Barbera to be found in all of Italy. The Trinchero family believes that the underrated Barbera grape is a variety capable of producing wines of profound complexity and serious longevity, if cultivated from old vines in top sites and vinified to allow graceful evolution in bottle. With this in mind, the Trincheros farm all of their vines organically and are extremely meticulous with their viticulture.
The flagship Barbera from the Trincheros is their Barbera d’Asti “Vigna del Noce”, which was planted in the hills of Asti in 1929. The old vines, coupled with short pruning produce only thirty-five hectoliters per hectare in the vineyard, and the resulting wine is as fine and example of Barbera as one will find. The wine is treated like a top Barolo, as it is given a fourty-five day maceration during the fermentation, and then aged at least two and a half years in large, old oak botti prior to bottling. The Trincheros hold the wine back in bottle at least another six months prior to its release, and it is capable of aging very well for twenty to twenty-five years after its release. It is clearly amongst the finest examples of Barbera made in Italy today.
