Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota, 2016 Sherry Offer producing impossible-to-find wines of depth

producing impossible-to-find wines of depth

fibrous edge

With its delicate citrusy aromas

Benoît Déhu’s Champagne “Cuvée Initiation” Extra Brut NV

Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota, 2016 Sherry Offer producing impossible-to-find wines of depthProduttori 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.