Barbera D'Alba DOC Battaglione 2022 Renato Ratti
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GRADATION 14,5 %
VINTAGE 2022
VITIGNO Barbera
DENOMINATION Barbera d'Alba DOC
AREA OF PRODUCTION Piemonte La Morra (CN)
PAIRING Aperitif, Meat, Cold cuts
RENATO RATTI: THE HISTORY OF LA MORRA
One of Piedmont's most famous and respected wineries, Renato Ratti was founded in 1965 by the man of the same name, a winegrower and scholar, a great forerunner of quality Barolo who has always worked to support and enhance the La Morra area and its traditional wines. Only indigenous grapes and only wines from the people and for the people like this Barbera Battaglione, the Barbera par excellence of the territory, which displays all the typical varietal characteristics, from fruit to freshness, enhanced by 12 months of ageing in wooden barrels of different capacities.
Deep ruby red in colour with vivid purple reflections, the nose shows the typical and mouth-watering fruity notes of blackberry and raspberry, morello cherry and macerated strawberry, with hints of underbrush and spices. The taste is graceful, fresh and intense, showing good body and easy drinking thanks to the balance between freshness and softness. Long fruity persistence from which roasted coffee also peeps out.
With first courses with meat sauces, stews but also grana padano cheese.
The Winery
Oenologist, historian, scholar, Renato Ratti, in 1971, was a great innovator of Barolo and one of the main architects of the cultural (and technical) revolution in the world of Piedmontese wine: the first man to vinify a Barolo from a single vine variety and the first to create the 'Carta del Barolo', a classification of the best Cru in the area in Burgundian style (it was 1976). The Italian wine world owes much to him, especially his ability to have intuited the symbiotic relationship between a given sub-zone, the vintage and the ageing process, indispensable elements for granting soft, elegant and, above all, long-lived red wines. He loved to say of himself that he experienced first-hand every phase of the production of his wines, and it is admirable the love and dedication with which successive generations continue to carry on the tradition of Renato Ratti, that signature that is synonymous with high standards across the entire range, even in the more 'simple' and less emblazoned expressions, such as Dolcetto and Barbera d'Alba. Tasting these wines is like looking out over a panorama that directly overlooks the oldest and most precious hills of La Morra, a panorama that will be hard to forget...
