2016 Matteo Correggia Roero Riserva Ròche d'Ampsèj

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  2/6/2024 - christian.tellvik@limab.se wrote: 91 Points

  Dark red color with some ripeness. Good aroma of red berries. Mully, dark berries. Some typical Nebbiolo. Good fruit with a bit of an earthy character. Elements of leather. Good length!

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  6/11/2022 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  The flagship wine of Matteo Correggia: made with Nebbiolo fruit from the Ròche d'Ampsèj cru, partly (50%) macerated with the skins for 10-12 days in stainless steel, partly (the other 50%) for a whopping 60 days in "rolling" 600-liter tonneaux barrels (mainly new French oak). After the maceration the first half is left to age in new barriques, the other half in those tonneaux. After a minimum of 14 months, the wines are blended together and then aged for a further 24 months in bottles. Total production 6505 bottles. 14,5% alcohol.
  
  Somewhat evolved and rather translucent reddish-maroon color that turns slightly syrupy-brown towards the rim. The nose feels sweet and relatively tertiary with aromas of ripe black cherries, some prunes, a little bit of dusty wood, light raisiny tones, a hint of gravelly minerality and a faint touch of toasty oak spice. The wine is ripe, juicy and surprisingly evolved on the palate with a full body and quite rich flavors of ripe sour cherries and stony minerality, some black raspberry tones, a little bit of dark pruney fruit, light meaty notes of umami, a hint of sweet strawberry and a touch of balsamico. The overall feel is quite sinewy and tightly-knit with the high acidity and quite assertive and noticeably grippy tannins. The finish is long, complex and tannic with a savory and quite developed aftertaste of sour cherries and wizened black cherries, some pruney tones, a little bit of licorice, light woody notes of savory oak spice, a hint of gravelly minerality and a touch of raisins.
  
  This was an impressively structured, complex and enjoyably developed Roero Nebbiolo - but at the same time its evolved overall character was quite a surprise, as a 2016 Nebbiolo should be very youthful rather than tertiary. I wonder if 2016 was a very hot vintage in Roero (or just at Correggia's vineyards) since this was already the second 2016 Correggia that was surprisingly ripe, sweet and pruney in character. However, unlike the 2016 Matteo Correggia Val dei Preti, which was just very ripe, sweet and bordering on pruney because of the ripeness, this felt slightly less ripe in character, but similarly pruney in taste - however, this wine seemed more aged with tertiary dried-fruit character as well. I wonder if this is really the style of 2016 or if we had just a slightly premoxed bottle or something else. This was a good, impressive and thoroughly enjoyable wine, but this was drinking more like a 25-years old Nebbiolo, not one barely 5 years old!

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  9/26/2021 - Eric wrote:

  Arborina Relais and dinner at Osteria Arborina (La Morra, Langhe, Italy): No note but from memory I absolutely loved this. It was a very pure expression of Nebbiolo. Reading professional reviews later suggests that it was somewhat spoofed with oak, but tasted blind I was fairly sure this was a Barbaresco. Light, precise, quite beautiful.

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