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Billy Button Wines
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2025
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43
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43#8
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Billy Button
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'The Affable' Barbera
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NV
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Single Vineyard
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Tony Ferraro
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Yes
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| Judging Results |
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83
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The two oldest wines have distinct colour development. Oldest wine flattened by development, some balsam, walnut and furniture polish notes but lacks freshness on the palate. Second wine is similar to the first but riper fruit profile, short. Youngest wine is bright vibrant and fresh, nice youthful and tangy example with very dry tannin
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good bright youngest wine in a fresher style than the two older vintage which looked a bit overdone in ripeness and oak
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Holding up with Barbera qualities of berries fruit at stages of maturity. Middle-aged wine shows potential and there is pedigree to structure here but seeing distinction and evenness of quality is not possible now. On an exciting trajectory.
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2024 has good concentration of myriad black fruit, generously arrayed across a plush palate. 2018 has forest floor, earthiness and game taking over. Unfortunately 2015 is faded with dried flowers leaving the structure bare and exposed.
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youngest wine is fruit driven and lifted, older wines round, too soft and lack definition
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| Varietal: Barbera, GI: Alpine Valleys, 100% |
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Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
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Conventional
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| Wine Making Information |
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Open Fermenter 100%
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Plastic 100%
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200
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False
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2015, 2018, 2024
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Jo Marsh & Glenn James
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