Claudio Alario makes some great wine. This “Valletta” is made with 100% Barbera grape from the Barbera d’Alba DOC in Piemonte, Italy.

You can read what comes next or you can just buy it, it’s absolutely beautiful, wonderful, magnificent.

Its a bold, dry with a big hit of balanced acidity that makes it so smooth. There aromas of cherry, smoke and plum thats joined with vanilla, pepper, sweet spices, nutty, cassis and dried fruit flavours, so much going on. Its the wonderful balance and smoothness that I love.

At £23 a bottle its not cheap but so worth it, Magic in a bottle.

Claudio Alario, Barbera d’Alba Valletta, 2017 from Piemonte, Italy