Angelo Negro Nicolon Barbera d'Alba DOCG 2023 - 0,75l

Angelo Negro Barbera d'Alba 2023 is a dry Barbera from Piedmont with deep cherry fruit, plum richness, and bright Alba acidity from steel tank ageing. It feels direct and polished, with gentle baking spice close to the fruit. The Negro family’s Roero touch gives this Alba red a clean and open line.

About the Wine
The 2023 Angelo Negro Barbera d'Alba comes from Piedmont’s Alba zone, with a soil mix listed as limestone, clay and tufa for this bottling. Angelo Negro is better known from its Roero home, and this red carries a denser Alba feel beside the estate’s famous Arneis labels. Barbera brings its natural acidity to the center, and Negro’s 2023 wraps it in ripe cherry and dark plum. The 14% alcohol gives the wine a rounded middle. The vineyards behind it leave a tactile mark in the glass, with cherry-skin grip and a faint stony dryness. Cellar work for this Angelo Negro Barbera d'Alba is based on stainless steel tank ageing. That is a key detail for the 2023. The wine stays close to primary fruit, with plum skin and red cherry leading before the spice arrives. The baking-spice note reads as cinnamon dust near the cherry and clove near the finish. The dry profile feels clean rather than sweet in impression, with Barbera acidity carrying the fruit across the palate. Stainless steel gives this Negro red a direct shape, and the final taste returns to cherry pulp and a small touch of tufa-like dryness.

Tasting Notes
The 2023 Angelo Negro Barbera d'Alba pours deep ruby, and the colour already hints at the darker plum tone that separates it from the estate’s paler Roero Arneis world. Ripe cherry leads the nose, followed by plum compote and a small pinch of baking spice that feels like cinnamon dust on warm fruit. The palate is dry and energetic, with Barbera acidity running through the 14% body and keeping the fruit vivid from the first sip. Silky tannins sit low and smooth, then the finish brings back cherry skin, red plum and a faint stony edge linked to the limestone-clay-tufa soils. Drink 2025-2028.

Food Pairing
Pour this 2023 Angelo Negro Barbera d'Alba with red meat that has a savoury edge, such as grilled ribeye with rosemary or slow-braised beef cheeks. For a Piedmont table, choose agnolotti del plin filled with roast meat or tajarin with a beef and tomato ragù. The wine’s bright acidity meets the richness of the meat, and its plum fruit feels especially good beside browned butter or pan juices. Aged cheese also fits the shape of this Negro Barbera, especially Castelmagno, aged toma or a firm pecorino with salt crystals. The cinnamon-like spice note makes it a good bottle for pork shoulder with fennel seed or veal sausages from the grill.

Producer
Angelo Negro is a family producer based in Monteu Roero, a village on the left bank of the Tanaro that many drinkers first meet through the estate’s Roero Arneis and its Serra Lupini label. The 2023 Barbera d'Alba reflects that address in its clean fruit line, and this Piedmont red follows a direct path through stainless steel tank ageing from first smell to the final cherry note. The Negro family traces its work in Roero back to the seventeenth century, with Monteu Roero remaining the practical point of reference for vineyard names, cellar choices and the range on offer. The estate’s portfolio moves from Arneis to Nebbiolo and Barbera with a steady feel for grape identity, and this dry Barbera keeps the family name attached to fruit clarity. For this red the concrete detail is stainless steel tank ageing, and the glass carries cherry skin, plum flesh and cinnamon-dusted spice in a direct line. The 2023 Barbera d'Alba sits inside the Negro portfolio as a darker dry red, marked by Alba limestone-clay-tufa soils, silky tannin and a clean 14% frame.

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