Barbera d'Alba, Villa Casetta 2015In the hilly area around Alba, only vineyards in the hills with suitable slopes and orientations are considered adequate for production. The terrains must be primarily clayey calcareous or sandy calcareous in character. DOC recognition is excluded for terrains with northern exposures and the bottoms of valleys that are flat or semi flat. The colour of the wine is intense ruby red when young with a tendency to garnet after ageing.