Our friend Summer Wolff joins us to pour a vertical flight of 3 vintages of one of 
Italy's undisputed great Barberas, the Barabba of Fabrizio Iuli. This wine, year-in and year-out, explores the qualitative ceiling that the Barbera grape is capable of. Sourced from a plot of 75 year old Barbera vines in Monferrato, the wine is aged for up to 3 years in French oak, yet astonishingly absorbs it beautifully, never showing "oakiness" and interspersing deeply vibrant fruit aromas with terrific minerality. And they age. To demonstrate this we will be pouring the 2002, 2004, and 2006 Barabba. The commune of Monferrato is thought to be the birthplace of Barbera, the varietal being mentioned as growing here as far back as the 12th century. This is, in our opinion, the most profound expression of the grape from the region of Monferrato.
