About the Wine
The Cigliuti Barbera Campass comes from older vines than the Serraboella, although from the same general area. The wine has everything that people love about Barbera: purple fruits, heaps of spice and liquorice, and a deep and layered palate with a long finish. Fermentation in steel vats and maturation in 15% new and 85% old oak helps to aid the complexity of the wine.
Like the Serraboella, the Campass can be enjoyed with grilled white or red meats, pasta, cured meats, risotto, or cheeses, and it can definitely benefit from a few more years of cellaring.
About Cigliuti
The Fratelli Cigliuti winery is situated on the Serraboella hill, some 350 metres above sea level overlooking Neive, one of three villages responsible for producing Barbaresco. Renato inherited his father’s 6.5 hectare property which remains family owned and run and is now into its fifth generation with daughters Claudia and Sylvia.
Winemaking techniques lean towards the traditional. Estate-grown, handpicked grapes are fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel, then aged in larger Slavonian oak barrels along with some barriques. Dolcetto and Nebbiolo grapes grow in the calcareous soils of the southwest-facing vineyards, while Barbera is cultivated on clayey sites with a south-eastern exposure. The wines show great complexity, minerality and personality.