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The Reserve Series ...2006 Barbera El Dorado ‘Reserve’
Source: Wohler Vineyard, El Dorado County
Harvest Date: September 30, 2006
Brix at Harvest: 26
Time in Barrel: 18 months
Type of Oak: Neutral French & American
Alcohol: 15.2%
Bottled: April 9, 2008
Production: 248 cases
Winemaker’s Notes: Barbera has its roots in the Piedmont region of Italy where it has grown for more than a thousand years. Italian immigrants brought Barbera rootstock to the Napa and Cen- tral Valleys in the early part of this century where it is quite widely grown. California Barberas are known for long-aging, robust red wines with intense fruit, snappy acidity and enhanced tannic content.
The Wohler Vineyard produces some of the best Barbera fruit we have ever seen. When young, the wines offer a very intense aroma of fresh black berries along with notes of cherries, raspber- ries, blueberries and black cherries . Many producers adds the flavor of toasted oak barrels, ob- taining very good results in terms of complexity and longevity when vanilla and ‘toast’ is added to the original fruit aroma.