Giacomo Conterno Barbera d'Alba Vigna Francia
- Red
- Italy
- Barbera d'Alba
- Barbera
- Tracked vintages
- 18
- Community notes
- 367
- Merchant offers
- 81
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 94/ 1002023 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100367 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £44per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- Drinking window
- 2022–2037peak2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 426 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barbera.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.9 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin2.4 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · tobacco, chocolate, oak, vanilla, clove
- Earth · leather, earthy, minerals, tar, smoke
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black cherry, black fruit, dark fruit
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, anise, mint, savory
- Dried fruit · prune, dried fruit, fig, black raisin, dried apricot
Grapes: Barbera. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2010One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 202394unit not stated
- 202293unit not stated
- 202195£44 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- 202095£45 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
- 201994£40 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
- 201894£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024
- 201793
- 201694
- 201594£42 / 75cl6-1500 ml in-bond trade, January 2023
- 201493£30 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016
- 201395£32 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
- 201294
- 201193£47 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, December 2015
- 201093£34 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
- 200993
- 200892
- 200797
- 200694
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2007
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2007
- drinking, window 2014–2027
- Lowest price
- 2014
- £30 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £44 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025 |
| 2020 | £45 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024 |
| 2019 | £40 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022 |
| 2018 | £49 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024 |
| 2015 | £42 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, January 2023 |
| 2014 | £30 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016 |
| 2013 | £32 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019 |
| 2011 | £47 | 92.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2015 |
| 2010 | £34 | 93 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017 |
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