Wine of the Day, No. 469

Made from 100 percent barbera grapes, as it must be, the Attilio Ghisolfi Maggiora Barbera d'Alba 2016, Piedmont, represents a lovely evocation of the variety and the marly-white tufa soil in which the vines grow at 1,200 to 1,300 feet elevation. The grapes fermented by wild yeast; the wine aged for 15 months, half in French barriques, half in large Sla…