2016 Barbaresco Ovello Riserva Produttori del Barbaresco

The 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Ovello is the most severe and angular of these wines. It will appeal most to die-hard classicists. Chalk, white pepper, mint and sweet red cherry fruit all grace this chiseled, beautifully translucent Barbaresco. As always, the Ovello needs a number of years in bottle to reveal its charms, which in 2016 are many. It is a positively stellar wine in every way.

With exactly 16,090 bottles made, the Produttori del Barbaresco 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Ovello is another stellar experience in this series of nine single-vineyard Riserva wines from Barbaresco's most successful wine cooperative. The Ovello is quite sharp and defined in terms of its aromas of wild cherry, dried violet and powdered licorice. Those mineral tones are very clear in this classic vintage. However, the Ovello finishes on a slightly softer note (compared to the Pajè) with a finer and more approachable tannin. The blended fruit for this cru is supplied by the Audasso, Cavallo, Cravanzola, Gonella, Grasso, Maffei, Odore, Sarotto, Unio, Vacca and Varaldo families.

Kommunens nordlige MGA, kæmpestor… måske FOR stor, men Produttoris 12 jordejere har åbenbart puslet og plejet på den rigtige måde. Er åben for nordenvind og derfor vindkøling og har højt kalkindhold, der giver rankhed og struktur. Direkte powernæse, barolostyrke og mint, mentol og tørret tranebær og kirsebær. Medicinske urter af den mere hekseagtige slags. En hvis positiv dysterhed, raspende og markant tannin, men omsluttet igen af uforlignelig friskmoden rød frugtighed.