La Spinetta Gallina Barbera d'Alba
- Red
- Italy
- Barbera d'Alba
- Barbera
- Tracked vintages
- 13
- Community notes
- 349
- Merchant offers
- 73
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 100349 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- 2020–2028peak2016 · 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 203 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barbera.
- Body3.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin2.4 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, clove
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, blueberry, black fruit, dark fruit
- Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, tar, balsamic
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, pomegranate, red plum
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, cinnamon, menthol
- Floral · violet, perfume, dried flowers, lavender, potpourri
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.
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.
- 202383drinkersunit not stated
- 202284drinkersunit not stated
- 202186drinkersunit not stated
- 202085drinkersunit not stated
- 201982drinkersunit not stated
- 201892criticunit not stated
- 201792criticunit not stated
- 201694critic
- 201592criticunit not stated
- 201391criticunit not stated
- 200591critic
- 200090drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of 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
- 2016
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2016
- peak, window 2020–2028
Where to go next
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