Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Gresy Barbaresco Martinenga Camp Gros Riserva 2018 750ml

The 2018 Barbaresco Riserva Camp Gros Martinenga (with 7,700 bottles hitting the market now) is a wine that boasts extra energy and verve. There is a vibrant, vertical quality to the bouquet that hits home thanks to its aromas of cassis, dried raspberry and earthy iris root. The wine grows in complexity as it evolves in the glass to show toasted aniseed and mild spice along the way. That’s the magic of the limestone marl soils of Barbaresco.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Piedmont
• Appellation: Barbaresco
• Size: 750ml
• Color: Red
• Alcohol by Vol: 14.5%

Varietal

Nebbiolo

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy’s finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means ‘fog’ in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.