De Forville, Barbera d'Alba, 2025

Old-school Piedmont from a Barbaresco institution. De Forville has farmed in the village of Barbaresco since 1860 and works in a fiercely traditional style, with long aging in large barrels and an honest, terroir-driven hand (imported by Neal Rosenthal). Their Barbera d'Alba comes off estate vineyards and shows the grape at its best: deeply colored, juicy, and low in tannin but full of energy thanks to bright natural acidity. This is the kind of everyday Piedmontese red that overdelivers, ready to enjoy young.