Barbaresco Asili 2013 CA del Baio: The Review of a Precious Piedmontese Red Wine
Nine years after the harvest the Ca del Baio Barbaresco Asili 2013 begins to manifest all its charm, It’s a race nebbiolo, austere and enveloping, grumpy and inviting: you start with a sharp ethereal fruit that pierces your nose, then it caresses you with delicious perfumes of blue flowers in spirit, and then the scents of the Langhe arrive: truffles, autumn-dried leaves, hazelnuts, and undergrowth.
More than a wine, it is a monument to this splendid amphitheater, to one of the most prestigious Piedmontese crus, where Nebbiolo becomes really large and majestic. Kindergarten is a magical hill that hypnotizes you.
The spires of the vineyards follow one another on earth like the sinuous turns of a snake. It looks like a metaphysical place in Chirico style, almost unreal, where only the vineyards dominate.
How it is produced
The vineyards range in age from some venerable 70-year trees to others that are clearly younger, 23 years old, due to pitch replacements.
The soils are based on a mixture of blue marls, limestone, and clay.
After harvest, 90% of the bunches are thinned and pressed (with the remaining 10% combined with raspberries) in wooden vats at a controlled temperature.
After 60 days, there is a variation, and the wine refines for 30 months in oak barrels.
Organoleptic characteristics
The bouquet is splendid, as anticipated. All the charm of Nebbiolo is present, but it is declined with great finesse. Classic earth, china, licorice scents, a thread of mint and musk, balsamic tones of alpine herbs, and artemisia that wink at Vermouth With watermelon and raspberries, the fruit is splendid and thin. The wood is now perfectly integrated and has left no palpable traces but only distant echoes.
It has an amazing thickness on the tongue, and the tannins are still lively, but they have opened up and changed into a symphony of earth and unique roots.
A soft, incredibly thin fruit that closes the forest flavors and comforts the palate as rhubarb and cola flavors take over.
The complexity is monstrous, at times breathtaking, but it has a great calmness, affecting solemnity and incredible harmony.
Price
The vintage just released on the market costs $75, which is certainly not a lot for a single bottle of red wine, but it becomes a lot if you compare it to the magniloquence of this splendid Barbaresco. At least 7-8 years are needed; it is useless to get it before; it would be madness. And with these tannins, it would not be very pleasant. You can also set it for 15, 20, 30, or 40 years after the harvest, and it will amaze you each time.
