Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota, 2016
Produttori del Barbaresco may be the best argument in wine that a cooperative can outrun most estates. In strong years — and 2016 in Piedmont was a very strong year — the growers bottle their finest crus separately as Riserva, and the wines age for decades while costing a fraction of what that implies. Muncagota tends to speak in perfume rather than muscle: rose petal, dried cherry, tar and sweet tobacco, all wrapped in Nebbiolo's fine, insistent tannin. At a decade old it is just starting to open, showing the savory, earthy complexity Nebbiolo gives up only with time, and it has plenty of road ahead. Decant it, give it a good hour, and pour it alongside something rich. Getting to know these adjacent crus, each shifting with soil and slope, is one of wine's great pleasures.
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Produttori del Barbaresco may be the best argument in wine that a cooperative can outrun most estates. In strong years — and 2016 in Piedmont was a very strong year — the growers bottle their finest crus separately as Riserva, and the wines age for decades while costing a fraction of what that implies. Muncagota tends to speak in perfume rather than muscle: rose petal, dried cherry, tar and sweet tobacco, all wrapped in Nebbiolo's fine, insistent tannin. At a decade old it is just starting to open, showing the savory, earthy complexity Nebbiolo gives up only with time, and it has plenty of road ahead. Decant it, give it a good hour, and pour it alongside something rich. Getting to know these adjacent crus, each shifting with soil and slope, is one of wine's great pleasures.
