Barbera

Barbera is the first wine you will grow in story mode and likely in other modes as well. It requires no unlocked technology to plant, and in Piedmont is always well suited to the cheaply priced Bricco vineyard.


 * Barbera is easy to produce a few decent bottles of early, but requires late game barrels to achieve all 4 star attributes in one bottle.
 * Compared to Chardonnay, the other starter grape variety, Barbera wine tends to sell for more per bottle for equitable scoring wine but requires you to sacrifice yield or quality, especially in the early game in order to get those ratings.

Journal Entry
Barbera is known for its deep color, full body, low tannins and high levels of acidity. When young, the wines offer a very intense aroma of fresh red cherries and blackberries.

Guide
Pruning
 * Guyot

Harvest
 * Target 10 acidity. Harvest as soon as possible as there currently is no way to increase acidity post-harvest.

Crush

Fermentation


 * Target 2 sweetness.
 * Flavors to target, Blackberry and Cherry.
 * Punch-down/pour-over has two main strategies
 * No punch-down for higher pressing yields, but risking a mercaptan fault.
 * 1x/day Punch-down, reducing the chance of a mercaptan fault, but increasing tannins at pressing time.

Press


 * Target 2 tannins. If you performed punch-down and would like a higher yield you can press to 3 tannins for minimal score impact.

Malolactic Fermentation


 * No.

Aging


 * Target 8 body. Typically this mean age Barbera for the maximum time with the strongest barrels you have.

Bottling


 * Currently bottling has no effect on the points rating outcome of your wine. Don't use natural cork as it causes the cork taint fault

Tasting

Trivia

 * As of 2010 there were 20,524 hectares (50,720 acres) of Barbera planted in Italy, making it the sixth most widely planted red grape variety in the nation.
 * Normally Barbera needs to be pruned much more aggressively than many varieties or it will quickly produce too many clusters and degrade the quality of the berries. In game, however, this is not a concern.
 * YvesHohler confirmed in discord that he makes Barbera D'asti himself!