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Michaela Morris selects 10 top Piedmont Barbera reds

1 Olim Bauda, Riserva, Nizza 2016 95

£29.99-£36.95 Alliance Wine, DBM Wines

After working with barriques for a number of years, the Bertolini brothers switched to 25hl casks of French Allier oak in order to achieve a more elegant expression of Barbera. From the northern sector of Nizza, this has seductive aromas of raspberry, cherry and cocoa laced with coffee wafting faintly through the background. The fruit is plush, taking on an exotic sweet savouriness, and 2021-2028 15%

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