Barbera Wines

Appearance: Ruby red with violet reflections. Nose: Elegant with fine intensity, hints of red-berried fruit and cherry. Palate: Fruity and well structured, tasty and inviting. Food: Pasta dishes served with red sauces;white and red meat. Cella...

Coriole has grown Barbera for over a decade and produces it in the traditional red table wine style of Northern Italy. Barbera is second only to Nebbiolo in Northern Italy, and is renowned for having marked acidity. This however can be one of t...

Wine Profile: Intense ruby red with garnet reflections. Nose is delicate with scents of toasty ripe fruit. Warm, full and harmonious, delivering the typical freshness of Barbera. Food: Best served at 18-20 C. Ideal for accompanying white or red...

In Piedmont Barbera normally plays second fiddle to the more favoured Nebbiolo, but with superb wines like this for the life of me I can't see why. Bursting with tarry blackberry fruit in a fresh juicy package with some balancing tannins this wine...

David Hook is a gun winemaker from the Hunter who makes one of the most brilliant Barbera’s in the country. Dare we say it, one taste and you’ll be hooked, because this seriously sexy Italian is supple and seductive. It’s varietal with cherry and ...

The grapes are sourced from a single vineyard nestled amidst the hot sands of Kalimna in the Barossa’s north. A large percentage of whole berries in the ferment and gentle maceration have retained the freshness of the variety. After pressing, the ...

Barbera is a fantastic variety, a lovely red grape that we wish was more widely planted here. The appeal here is all about juiciness. Juiciness but with more acidity than many other reds making for maximum refreshment factor. In this McLaren Vale ...

Here is a ready-drinking wine from one of Piedmont's most modern producers. It's a sexy, slinky number featuring lots of fragrant black fruits and rose florals on the nose, before the medium-bodied palate chimes in with dark berries and savourines...

If top notch Barbera is what you are looking for, here is one to get your palate racing. Made by top La Morra winery, Ciabot Berton, the fruit comes from 60-year old vines, so this is an intense little number. Medium to full-bodied in style, it sh...

Barbera is a very underrated grape variety in Australia, but it produces lovely wines in its native Italy that are beautiful food wines. This barbera is medium-bodied and quite elegant in style showing red berries and cherries on the nose, with pl...

Once you can get your head round the length of the wine’s name then you’ll get to appreciate the length on the palate. This is smart, sexy and sassy stuff showing the appeal of Barbera as a superb option with food. It’s choc-full of cherries and b...

If Mudgee is to compete with other wine regions in NSW then they have to offer a point of difference when it comes to wine varieties. The Hunter has Semillon, Canberra has Riesling but Mudgee have cornered the market with alternative varieties. So...

Medium to full red/purple colour. Subdued and slightly earthy bouquet, chaffy and woodsy. Lacks bright primary fruit. Leaner style with fairly modest fruit, but good length, and the components are in balance.

Deep, dense purple/red: colossal colour. Very stinky, reductive nose. Shrill and bright, raw and aggressive, with lively acid and tannin, needing time to gel properly. Too callow at this point.

Medium to full red/purple colour. Very 'crushed leafy', spicy aromas, herbal and minty, a definite greenness to the fruit. Almost rank. Thin and weedy in the mouth: lacks fundamental ripeness and palatability.

Can be a pretty tricky variety to get right. But this one dies it superbly. Spicy black cherry with some distinctive dusty earthy overtones. The palate is typically dry and savoury with just a hint of sweet fruit within. The oak fruit balance is s...

Good. Clean and fresh with high acidity and nice overall quality, but ultimately not that interesting.

Deep purple/red colour. Subdued but fresh aromas of banana and cherry, simple and fruit-driven, possibly without oak. Very grapy on the mouth with a light to medium body and a trace of sweetness - possibly a touch of residual sugar. Pleasant early...