Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d’Asti DOCG - Tenuta Tenaglia

The Tenuta Tenaglia Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti is a first-class vegan red wine. It offers a wonderfully bright, ruby red color. When swirling the wine glass, you can perceive a perfect balance in this red wine, as it is neither watery nor syrupy or liqueur-like on the glass walls. The nose of this Tenuta Tenaglia red wine reveals all kinds of brioches and blackberries.

This red wine from Tenuta Tenaglia is ideal for wine lovers who would prefer 0.0 grams of residual sugar in their wine. The Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti comes very close to this, as it was vinified with just 2.4 grams of residual sugar. This dense red wine is balanced and multi-layered on the palate. Thanks to its moderate fruit acidity, the Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti flatters the palate with a pleasing sensation without lacking freshness. On the finish, this youthful wine from the Piedmont wine-growing region finally delights with considerable length. Once again, there are hints of blackberry and brioche. Mineral notes from the clay-dominated soils are added to the finish.

Vinification of the Tenuta Tenaglia Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti

The balanced Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti from Italy is a single-varietal wine made from the Barbera grape variety. The vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on clay soils in Piedmont. After being harvested by hand, the grapes are quickly taken to the press house. Here they are sorted and carefully crushed. This is followed by fermentation in small oak barrels at controlled temperatures. Once fermentation is complete, the vegan Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti is matured for 12 months in oak barriques.

Dining recommendations for Tenuta Tenaglia Giorgio Tenaglia Barbera d'Asti

This vegan red wine from Italy is best enjoyed at a temperature of 15 - 18°C as an accompaniment to vegetable couscous with beef meatballs, duck breast with sugar snap peas or boeuf bourguignon.