Barbera d'Alba, Bajet, Pedemontis 2022
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Why this wine
Pedemontis works marginal Roero and Langhe land back into production, farming a closed cycle in which thirty donkeys do the weeding and the fertilising. Bajet is unoaked and rested on its lees, which keeps the Barbera fruit clean and the acidity intact. A serious estate's everyday red.
At a glance
- Grape
- Barbera
- Region
- Piedmont, Italy
- Alcohol
- 13.50%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- High
- Tannins
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Drink now (1-3 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Pasta, Poultry & Pork, Cheese
How it tastes
Ripe red fruit scented with cinnamon, vanilla and a twist of black pepper. Medium-bodied and neatly balanced, with Barbera's bright acidity, supple tannins and a juicy finish. Barbera 100%.
The producer
Pedemontis is a family business farming 260 hectares of vineyard, forest, truffle ground and hazelnut groves in the hills of Roero and the Langhe, much of it marginal land saved from abandonment and patiently brought back into use. Thirteen hectares are mature vineyard, with two younger plots coming on, planted to local varieties — Barbera, Nebbiolo, Arneis and Favorita — under what the estate calls closed-cycle viticulture: a team of thirty donkeys roams the rows feeding on the wild grasses and returns its compost to the soil, and the forests offset the estate's carbon. Bajet comes from a single sandy, calcareous plot of 0.55 hectares at 270 metres with a south-westerly aspect, Guyot-trained and cultivated with as little intervention and canopy work as possible, picked by hand into small baskets. After destemming the grapes fermented with wild yeasts at low temperature in stainless steel vats over eight weeks, then rested more than five months on fine lees in tank to hold on to the purity of the fruit. Bajet is Piedmontese dialect for the young conscript soldier, and the wine is made in that spirit, for early drinking.
Food and drinking
Serve at 15–16°C. Good with tagliatelle al ragù, pork chops, a mushroom risotto or a plate of medium-aged cheese. Bottled under a DIAM closure, so it opens reliably; drink it over the next two or three years while it is fresh, and no decanting is needed. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.