Cascina Luisin Barbera d'Alba Axilium 2018 (750ml)
Roberto owns a tiny sliver of Barbera in the highly regarded cru of Asili, in the commune of Barbaresco, and from it he produces a wine that showcases in eye-popping fashion the variety’s ability to deliver enormous complexity when planted in a vaunted terroir and raised respectfully. Fermented in cement and aged two years, Axilium epitomizes the finesse for which Asili is known, offering dense, tightly reined-in red fruits, blossoming minerality, and a lengthy finish of impeccably rendered tannins. It should age effortlessly well into a second decade.
