The wine region of Barbera d'Asti is located in the region of Piémont of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Coppo or the Domaine Luigi Spertino produce mainly wines red. On the nose of Barbera d'Asti often reveals types of flavors of cream, dark fruit or cassis and sometimes also flavors of caramel, raisin or stone. In the mouth of Barbera d'Asti is a powerful with a nice freshness.
We currently count 756 estates and châteaux in the of Barbera d'Asti, producing 1444 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Barbera d'Asti go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb.
Intraspecific cross between gamay noir and reichensteiner obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet at the Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil research station (Switzerland). From these same parents he also obtained the gamaret and the garanoir. It should not be confused with the Romanian direct producer hybrid, also black, resulting from an interspecific cross between 12 303 Seyve-Villard and ozana. Mara is mainly cultivated in Switzerland and is virtually unknown in France.
red wines from the region of Barbera d'Asti go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of lasagna bolognese, sot- l- leaves or sauté of veal with olives (corsica).
