2017 Matteo Correggia Barbera d'Alba Superiore Marun

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  5/6/2023 - AKC Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Lovely Barbera. Strongly flavoured but balance and contained. Certainly it’s rich and luscious. Good with roast lamb.

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  7/15/2022 - Schönibert wrote: 91 Points

  Obendrüber.

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  6/11/2022 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  A single-vineyard Barbera from the lieu-dit Marun. Fermented and macerated with the skins for 8-10 days in stainless steel. Aged for at least 4 months in 3000-liter oak botti and partly used barriques. Total production 17,000 bottles. 15% alcohol.
  
  Dark, youthful and fully opaque inky blackish-red color. Somewhat restrained and quite dark-toned nose with brooding aromas of blueberries and sweet black cherries, some savory wood spice, a little bit of toasty mocha oak, light boozy nuances of alcohol and a sunny hint of boysenberry jam. The wine is ripe, round and somewhat sweet-toned on the palate with dark-toned flavors of juicy black cherries, some solar notes of wizened dark plums, a little bit of toasty mocha oak, light raisiny nuances, a lifted sweet hint of VA and a touch of blueberry jam. The high alcohol lends quite a bit of warmth to the palate. The wine would be quite heavy and ponderous if it weren't for the rather high acidity and surprisingly grippy (for a Barbera) medium-plus tannins that lend some nice sense of firmness and structure to the wine. The finish is juicy, sweetly-fruited and rather hot with some tannic grip and long, rich flavors of sweet dark plums and soft black cherries, some raisiny tones, a little bit of volatile balsamic lift, light boysenberry jam tones and a hint of blueberry juice,
  
  Although this was a firm and quite seriously structured effort for a Barbera, the overall feel was still way too heavy and sunny for my taste - while somewhat balanced, the excessively high alcohol dominated quite a bit and the wine was lacking freshness, which I consider a vital aspect of a good Barbera. This is a burly and quite clumsy wine that unfortunately bears the signs of the hot and dry 2017 vintage, making it feel as if the wine was made with baked fruit, thanks to its at times almost raisiny and pruney flavors and slightly boozy alcohol. I want my Barbera to be a fresh, vibrant and crunchy wine, not an Amarone. This is not a bad wine, just something I myself didn't enjoy.

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  3/6/2022 - Schönibert wrote: 91 Points

  Das ist schon ein sehr geiler Wein, komplex, fruchtig, sehr ziseliert trotz des Alkohols, lang. Herzlich gerne.

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  12/9/2021 - purple_grape wrote: 91 Points

  This has come into its own. Spicy ripe nose, fruit cake but no jammy or backed. Palette is rich, spicy, medium acidity and carrying the 15% alcohol really well now, better than 12 months ago. Medium + complexity. Thoroughly enjoyable.

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