I'll be flat-out honest. There are some days that wine just smells and tastes like wine. I struggle to find complexity, work to pull out scent profiles, and wonder when red isn't just red. When that happens, I ask a trusted friend who spent a couple years working with wine and the rest absorbing an encyclopedia of facts about it. We have yet to figure out how to make money off his brain, but until then his descriptions of wine are pretty darn useful. But I digress.
Barbera is an Italian grape variety. D'Asti refers to the hilly areas of the provinces of Asti and Alexandria (as you can imagine, Barbera is grown in several different regions with their own provincial designation). Prunotto Fiulot is - you guessed it - the producer and name of the wine respectively.
Why should you care about this lesson in Wine Label Reading 101? Oh I dunno... just in case you want to find it again someday and you want to know what you're asking for and who makes it.
But anyway, back to the wine. The color is a deep, clear garnet. The scent reminds me of a mixture of juniper berries, sage and leather with a bit of plum just for fun. With a bright wash of acidity, this medium-bodied red tastes of woods and eucalyptus with dried blackberries and a bit of smoke and spice.
All in all, a quaffable (read: drinkable) everyday red that should nicely accompany a weeknight pasta dish with a red sauce.
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