Here is an easy value wine to pair with cold cuts or pasta with meat sauce. The 2017 Barbera d'Alba is a thick and darkly saturated expression that has the acidity and the inner power to cut through the fats in those foods. Pio Cesare does a great job across its line of wines, but it shows a particularly deft hand with their lower-end wines like this food-friendly Barbera d'Alba. There should be some great value here, and production is ample with 80,000 bottles made.

Dark and brooding, this displays blackberry, pomegranate, almond and soy flavors. Dense and moderately long. Drink now through 2023. 3,400 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Piedmont / Barbera d'Alba Select to Add