We would like to invite you for the wine tasting of Barbaresco Borgese 2004 in Como - AIS.

This year sees the opening of the fifteenth edition of the "Barbaresco Around the Table" evemnt: a unique opportunity to taste and understand the new 2005 vintage, and learn how to match it with food. Come and celebrate Barbaresco with us!

For four evenings during May (9,16,23,30) twelve restaurants within the Barbaresco Production area are presenting the same list of Barbarescos to all fans of the wine. Each restaurant will offer more than 15 different labels of Barbaresco 2005 for evening - a total of over 70 wines made by producers belonging to the "Enoteca Regionale del Barbaresco" Regional wine shop and association.

The restaurants will all be serving traditional seasonal dishes to accompany their Barbaresco 2005, with plenty of choice for the customer.

See below the restaurants:

- Antica Torre (Barbaresco - 0173 635170): €50;

- Antinè (Barbaresco - 0173 635294): €65;

- Casa Nicolini (Barbaresco - 0173 638139): € 40;

- Locanda Bric Turot (Barbaresco - 0173 363902): €45;

- Rabayà (Barbaresco - 0173 635223): € 50;

- Vecchio Tre Stelle (Barbaresco - 0173 638192): €70;

- La Contea (Neive - 0173 67126 - 677558). €60;

- La Ciau del Tornavento (Treiso - 0173 638333): €75;

- Osteria dell'Unione (Treiso - 0173 638303): €46;

- Profumo Divino (Treiso - 0173 638017): €45;

- Trattoria Risoergimento (Treiso - 0173 638195): €45;

- Osteria Italia (Alba - 0173 286942): €45.

In 2005 vine growers concluded harvesting the Nebbiolo for Barbaresco grapes by the end of September, a little earlier than the year before. The weathe had determined an early summer, with high temperatures in the first days of June already. July had been contradictory, cool in the first hall and thne very hot; followed by an alternate August, neither sticky nor rain. After the first rainy days, September had been hot and dry, helping an early harvest, but less generous than the last before.

Time backed the evolution in the cellar, giving birth to a very well structured wine, with a richness of flavours and a full-bodied palate, born to stand the trials of time.

The 685 hectares of wineyards yielded 3,717,866 bottles of Barbaresco docg 2005.