Reviews
97 Wine Enthusiast -
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Rose, red berry and star anise aromas align with earthy whiffs of forest floor and new leather. The full-bodied, delicious palate doles out succulent Morello cherry, black raspberry, licorice and chopped mint set against a backbone of firm but refined tannins. It's already gorgeous but will be even better with just a few more years of bottle age.
95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
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The Produttori del Barbaresco 2015 Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota shows beautifully in this sunny and warm vintage, producing intense and compelling primary fruit with wild cherry, plum and black currant. Compared to the other Riservas, the fruit profile of Muncagota is darker and richer. More significant is the role the tannins play in this wine. They contribute to a long and firm spinal cord that gives structure and muscle mass. This Barbaresco Riserva shows an affinity to shaved truffles over egg pasta, or gamey fowl such as duck or pigeon.
94 Decanter -
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The southeast-facing Muncagota vineyard catches the morning sun, giving this wine a slightly lighter character. This 2015 has delicious red berry and cherry flavours and scents. The tannins are slightly more rustic, perhaps, and it's the least full-bodied wine here, but its earthy elegance makes this a refreshing change for a Riserva.
93 Wine Spectator -
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On the lean side for 2015, with wild herb accents to the core of cherry and plum flavors, this is fluid and bright, with a line of tannins building on the finish. This expands nicely, filling out and lingering. Best from 2023 through 2038.
93 Vinous -
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Just as it did over the summer, the 2015 Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota continues to impress. Bold and ample on the palate, with terrific fruit density, the 2015 offers a heady concoction of dark cherry, plum, licorice, smoke, spice and leather that flesh out in the glass. This is a terrific showing for the Muncagota, usually one of the less complex wines in the Produttori's range of nine Riservas.
Technical Details
- BlendNebbiolo
- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- AppellationBarbaresco
- VineyardMuncagota
- Aging/Cooperage36 months in large oak barrels and 9 months in bottle
- Alcohol14.5%
Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota 2015
Nebbiolo | Italy
WE97, WA95, D94, VN93, WS93
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As Monica Larner put so succinctly, "Produttori del Barbaresco is one of Italy's ultimate values for your money." We have been screaming this from our Napa rooftops for years and the word is officially now out. The 2015 Muncagota is a deep and brooding wine with a ton of character. It's packed with red berries and black cherry, licorice and caramelized fennel. It's large-scaled and quite tannic so give this a few years to mellow a bit more or decant for a few hours before serving if you can't wait like us.
About the Producer
The legendary Produttori del Barbaresco, founded in 1958 in Barbaresco, creates some of the finest values in the entire world of wine. As Robert Parker once put it, Produttori “...continues to set some of the highest standards of winemaking for any cooperative in the world.” With 51 members contributing their grapes, controlling 250 acres of world-class Nebbiolo from a variety of terroirs and exposures.