Battaglione Barbera d'Asti doc Renato Ratti 2019

The Barbera d’Alba "Battaglione" of Renato Ratti is produced with grapes deriving from the sunny vineyards of La Morra: it shows an intense and brilliant ruby red colour. Its perfume is an intense and fruited one, with some hints of plum, currant, dry fruit, vanilla and green pepper. This wine is rich in body, while the taste is warm and strong, with a good structure and at the same time fresh and persistent. This Barbera d’Alba has good capacities of aging and it accompanies stuffed pasta, second courses based on meat and seasoned cheeses.

Renato Ratti’s caves are founded in 1965, when Renato decided to transfer the wine’s production, already begun in Alba, to La Morra in a building called the Annunziata. Since 1970 Renato Ratti became a datum point for the Langhe’s wine, and then he wrote lots of books about the composition and the history of his vineyards. After the death of Renato in 1998, the cave passed to his son Pietro, who amplifies his territories and modernize the winery. The building of the New Annunziata began in 2002, and even now it safeguards the wines’ production, always by respecting the tradition.