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Barbera d'Alba Stefanetto, Piero Busso 2022
Piero Busso
Piero Busso is one of the established voices of Neive, working from the family estate founded in 1953 when his father Luigi began assembling parcels in Albesani, Gallina and the Bricco Mondino hillside. Over the past four decades Piero has developed a precise and site focused approach centred on meticulous vineyard work, organic practices and long standing respect for the individual identities of Neive’s slopes. The estate remains entirely family run, with Piero, his wife Lucia and their children Pietro and Emanuela involved in every aspect from vineyard care to bottling. Vineyards sit across calcareous sandy and clay marl soils at varying exposures around Neive, all farmed with an emphasis on soil vitality and low intervention. Fermentations rely on indigenous yeasts, macerations are gentle, and élevage is conducted mainly in large neutral botti to safeguard purity and the transparency of each site.
Barbera d’Alba Stefanetto 2022 comes from a single south and southwest facing hillside in Neive, where sandy marl and pockets of compact clay give Barbera both lift and natural concentration. The 2022 vintage brought a warm, dry summer tempered by cool nights in September, allowing Barbera to retain its acidity while achieving full phenolic ripeness. Grapes were hand harvested, fully destemmed and fermented with native yeasts before a moderately extended maceration aimed at building depth without weight. The wine then aged in large neutral botti for around a year, settling slowly and gaining tension from the site’s mineral soils. The result is a vibrant and structured Barbera with dark cherry, blackberry, violet and savoury spice, framed by bright acidity and a long, refined finish.
Origin Neive, Piedmont, Italy
Grapes Barbera
Vintage 2022
Alcohol 14.5%
Style Vibrant, structured, mineral, lifted
Bottle size 75cl
Winemaking Organic principles, hand harvested, destemmed, natural fermentation, moderate maceration, aged in large neutral botti, unfined, unfiltered
Notes Site expressive, bright acidity, detailed fruit, purity over power