Scarpa Barbera d'Asti Briccomora 2023 Old Rioja or a Martini with a

or a Martini with a lemon twist

Organic since 2010 and fully biodynamic by 2013

buttery on the palate with a tense minerality

From the producer: Created to celebrate the 35 years of activity at Monte Rossa

Estate grown grapes

Scarpa Barbera d'Asti Briccomora 2023 Old Rioja or a Martini with aLong before anyone else thought Barbera deserved serious treatment, Scarpa did. The house has been around for more than 170 years, and back in the 1960s when Barbera was Piedmont's everyday drinker, made to be thrown back young and cheap Scarpa was already building versions meant to age. Briccomora comes from the I Bricchi estate, on the border between Castel Rocchero and Acqui, and it is pure Barbera: bright cherry and plum, a floral lift, and the