The Winery Mario Costa of Barbera d'Alba of Piémont

Winery Mario Costa - Barbera d'Alba
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 31 of the estates of Piémont.
It is located in Barbera d'Alba in the region of Piémont
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The Winery Mario Costa is one of the world's great estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Barbera d'Alba to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Mario Costa wines

Looking for the best Winery Mario Costa wines in Barbera d'Alba among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Mario Costa wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Mario Costa wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Mario Costa

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Mario Costa

How Winery Mario Costa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of marco's pasta with bacon, osso bucco of veal or tartiflette.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Mario Costa

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Mario Costa. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Mario Costa

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.74/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Mario Costa.

  • Nebbiolo
  • Barbera
  • Dolcetto

Discovering the wine region of Barbera d'Alba

The wine region of Barbera d'Alba is located in the region of Piémont of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bospoeper or the Domaine Roberto Voerzio produce mainly wines red and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Barbera d'Alba are Nebbiolo, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Barbera d'Alba often reveals types of flavors of cream, stone or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of oil, pomegranate or sage.

In the mouth of Barbera d'Alba is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 714 estates and châteaux in the of Barbera d'Alba, producing 1241 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Barbera d'Alba go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork.

The top white wines of Winery Mario Costa

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Mario Costa

How Winery Mario Costa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pasta with neapolitan sauce and mushrooms, cuttlefish rust from my grandmother in sète or tomato and comté pie.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Mario Costa

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Mario Costa. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Mario Costa

  • 2016With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Mario Costa.

  • Arneis
  • Viognier

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Mario Costa

Planning a wine route in the of Barbera d'Alba? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Mario Costa.

Discover the grape variety: Nebbiolo

A very old grape variety grown in the Italian Piedmont. It has a great resemblance with the Freisa, which also comes from the same Italian region. Among the various massal selections made in Italy, we find lampia, michet and rosé. It can be found in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico, the United States (California), Australia, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, perhaps because it is a delicate and demanding grape variety with, among other things, a fairly long phenological cycle.

News about Winery Mario Costa and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Old

This term can have several meanings, but generally refers to a wine that is several years old and has been aged in the bottle after having been in the barrel.