A rising, nationally recognized star on the U.S. fine wine scene, Derrick Westbrook is one of the most exciting wine professionals of his generation.
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Temperature control that made the biggest contribution in ushering the Barbera d’Asti Docg into the contemporary era.
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I like to think of Barbera as the first wine you drink from the vintage. So I want it to be alive and fun (Bill Rosser)
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Luigi Veronelli ‘s team was a pivotal element in Italy’s new embrace of barrique fermentation and barrique aging. In other words, the winemakers who accompanied him on that trip became a model for other winemakers
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Barbera d’Asti is often called “the ultimate food wine,” thanks to its freshness, bright fruit flavors, and versatility (Theo Greenly)
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In 1982, the great Italian food and wine writer and editor Luigi Veronelli took three of Italy’s greatest winemakers at the time to California.
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Many consider Riccardo Guerrieri’s nearly all-Italian wine list at Divino to be among the best in Houston.
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One of the questions I get asked a lot when I pour a Barbera d’Asti in a tasting is what does the word “superiore” mean?
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“No grape has known such a dramatic upgrade in its fortunes and image in the last 20 years than Barbera in Piemonte, north-west Italy.”
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I was recently asked to present a wine tasting at an Upper Eastside art gallery in Manhattan. Imagine the setting straight out of a film shot in New York in the 1970s (get the picture?).