This wine pours from the glass with black-purplish intensity and an inky dark appearance. The 2017 Barbera d'Alba is an extremely fruit-forward wine to drink with lasagna topped with béchamel sauce. This wine has the grit, the intensity and the natural acidity to cut straight through any fatty, cheese-heavy food. Dark fruit is followed by spice and crushed oyster shell. This is a very food-friendly red wine with plump juiciness in abundance. With 45,000 bottles made, you get great value here.