2018 | Vigneti Massa Barbera "Monleale" | Piedmont | Italy Cassis The winery has been privately

The winery has been privately owned by the Geber family for more than a century

The dark-fruit aromas are chocolatey

bramble berry compote

The palate is ripe with flavors of baked black plum and clove flavors

Wonderfully intense

2018 | Vigneti Massa Barbera "Monleale" | Piedmont | Italy Cassis The winery has been privatelyWalter 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