Q: Why don’t we drink Barbaresco
all the time?
A: High cost and lack of selection.

Since I can’t afford to move us all
to northern Italy, I will extract
the sword and move on.

The first sip made me think of
“medicine”.

A few more sips and I have zeroed in on
the black cherry cough drop “candy”
flavor that I LOVE.

This is about as “sweet tasting” as I
can imagine a dry red wine to be
without actually being sweet.

Delicious.

I had this with tomato, caper, and
black olive “pizza” on day one.

Day Two…

Not much left for lunch, so I’m having
an “aperitif”.

The impressive thing is the “balance”
between acidity and tannins and the OVERTNESS
of both. I like both, so this is GOOD.

I’m getting hungry, but I’ll enjoy the pucker
as long as it lasts.