Barbera d'Alba 2004 Gabutti by Cappellano

Barbera is a grape grown in Piemonte in Italy. It's a grape with lots of fruit and acidity and very little tannins. Perfect for many different variations of food. Cappelano is one of the great personalties in Barolo with its base in the town of Serralunga d'Alba. A small town with less than 500 people and located some 400 meters above sea level. Gabutti is one of the great vineyards in Serralunga (no classification exists) so you just have to belive this. Over 50% of the production here is Barolo, but around 8% of the land is used to produce Barbera.

Cappelano hates people scoring his wines (he has a very good Barolo as well). He only produces 15000 bottles and you can in fact get some of his wines in Sandnes, Norway.
He also apparantly dislikes spitting as he so correctly says: I've been working my butt off to create these wines and then some wine critic circle the wine in his mouth and then spit it out.

Well we had his Barbera d'Alba from the excellent 2004 and felt no need to spit!

Deep dark red purple colour (typical for Barbera) with an elegant complex smell of beetroot, plum, cherries, chocolate and coffee. The mouth gives you a fantastic watery sensation due to the acidity with a long silky finish crying for food. To honour the wish not to set any grades, I can only say I enjoyed the wine, a macho example of a Barbera d'Alba. Pricy , but oh so good.

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