Linnaea Vineyards Bardo Barbera Nizza DOC 2019 (12 Bottles) Heathcote

by Fine Wine Cellars

$441.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Barbera just stepped forward asking you to take notice.

’Nizza’ is the newest and highest standard of Italy’s DOCG for Barbera wines, a privilege reserved only for the most uncompromising parcels scattered in the airy hills around the communes of Calamandrana & Nizza Monferrato in the heart of Piemonte. Think of ‘Nizza DOCG’ as the ‘Barolo DOCG’ of the Barbera grape.

Our 2019 version and first ’Nizza’ continues our focus on bio-friendly farming high in these Monferrato hills, framed by a magical season of just-right growing conditions. Once-again we hand pick to fermentation & maceration on skins for almost 2 months to extract everything, then settle her pluckiness in a large-format neutral boté to mesh undisturbed for 18 months, before bottling and resting those final 6 months in the winery.

This is your essential summer BBQ wine, stuffed to the gills with wads of dark plum, fragrant spice, tart cherries, a hint of smoked meat, and a finish that repeats that seductive taut pluminess almost ad infinitum.

100% Barbera old vines, 15% ABV.

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About Linnaea Vineyards

Linnaea, led by Daniel Fischl and Michelle Edwards, is becoming a flag-flier for sustainable vineyard practice, across every vineyard they touch globally. The wines are made with a meticulous, reductive approach, and a blend of tradition and thoughtful intuition. They produce wines from their home base in Heathcote, as well as a selection from Italy.

The Winemakers
Michelle Edwards grew up in Washington state and moved to Melbourne in 2010. After completing university degrees in Anthropology, Oenology and Viticulture, she made wines in Napa and Sonoma Valley, Washington State, Australia and Italy. She lives with her husband (Dan), three children and dogs above her urban winery and enjoys all things fermented, dancing, parenting (sometimes), native Australian bees, indigenous Australian plants and foods, and tardigrades.

Dan Fischl is an agricultural scientist and technical vineyard specialist working globally in a few fancy and forward-thinking vineyards in countries as diverse as Australia, the USA, Israel, Mexico, China & Italy. PhD-trained in all things plant biochemistry and way-too-specifically the genomics of ripening in grapevines, his real passion is biological systems and restoring ecological balance to vineyard lands. Dan loves to chase after his three kids, fishing, cooking, Queen (the band, not the actual queen) and innovating algorithms for water conservation in vineyards.

Fine Wine Cellars

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