Dellatorri Barbera D'Asti Red Italian Wine

Barbera d'Asti is a protected wine designation centered on the provinces of Asti and Alessandria. The name binds one main grape to a wide run of slopes, so it marks out a broad growing area rather than a single plot; elevation, the pitch of each hillside and the soil under the vines all shift from one site to the next.

Barbera, the grape the appellation is named for, is the variety it is built around. On the producer side, Dellatorri says its wines are supplied by the Torri family from vineyards in Italy, and that account does not run much past that line.

We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle, so the steadier facts are where it comes from and what it costs. Across nine stores in our September 2026 checks, the lowest observed price was $15.88 and the highest was $16.88.

There is one more thing the official name settles: Barbera d'Asti is a red, kept distinct from the Moscato-based Asti bottlings that share part of the wording but stand as separate designations.

Corks & Cheers, the importer's portfolio site for the brand, adds detail the producer's own site does not: it names the formal designation as Barbera d'Asti D.O.C.G. and credits Mike Collier, a Welsh-born, food-science-trained winemaker who earned the Master of Wine qualification in 2009, a credential that site says fewer than 360 people worldwide hold, as the winemaker behind the full Dellatorri portfolio; neither fact is confirmed on dellatorri.com itself. Dellatorri's own tasting note describes a deep ruby-magenta wine with ripe cherry, strawberry and floral notes finishing on fresh acidity, and the producer suggests pairing it with a light pasta dish, especially one with truffles.

Our call: worth a look if a formal D.O.C.G. designation and a Master-of-Wine-credentialed winemaker are what you look for, since the importer's portfolio page supplies both, even though Dellatorri's own site confirms neither fact itself. Pass if you want that story confirmed by the producer directly or a shopper rating to weigh; neither has reached our record for this bottle.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.