Italy is famous in the wine world for its many different territories and microclimates, capable of creating numerous autochthonous grape varieties, each with its own identity. Braida di Bologna Giacomo is one of the wineries that has been selected for the 2016 edition of Opera Wine, on Saturday, the 9th of April in Verona.
Opera Wine is the only tasting organized in Italy by the American magazine Wine Spectator. Arranged in collaboration with Vinitaly, it is now a traditional and prestigious preview for the most important Italian event dedicated to wine.
Journalist Bruce Sanderson has chosen the 2010 vintage of Bricco dell’Uccellone.
Bricco dell’Uccellone is Giacomo Bologna’s third child. The story of Bricco dell’Uccellone began when he returned from a trip to California. The fact that the Americans were able to make great wines was something unfathomable to a true-blooded Piedmontese winemaker. So, when Giacomo went to California at the end of the Seventies, he drank reds with neither identity nor roots, but nevertheless, they were good, great even.
He called his wife Anna, and said: “We’ve got it all wrong, these guys are way ahead of us”.
In California Giacomo realized the importance of barriques and that they could be the key to success for his Barbera; he attended an oenology course in Burgundy and began the selection of Bricco dell’Uccellone, in 1982.
Colour: very deep ruby red with garnet highlights.
Bouquet: rich, complex, with excellent body and concentration; scents of red fruit and berries are particularly evident.
Flavour: generous, full-bodied and outstanding structure, perfect combination of the characteristics of the grape variety and the elements added by the wood, in a unison of great smoothness and class, completed with lingering aromatic persistency.
Pubblicato il 11 Aprile, 2019