1967 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Speciale Moccagatta

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  10/11/2022 - forceberry wrote: 97 Points

  The fruit is sourced from the Muncagota vineyard (the historic name under which the current vintages of this wine are bottled) and I believe this is the first bottling Produttori has made from this vineyard. The "Riserva Speciale" supposedly denotes the bottle is aged for four years in oak bottis instead of the normal three for Riservas. Bottle #6566 of total 13850 (0,72-liter) bottles. 13,35% alcohol.
  
  Luminous, moderately evolved brick-red color. The fragrant nose feels evolved, sweet and attractive with complex aromas of ripe cherries and pine tar, some strawberry tones, a little bit of brambly raspberry and fresh forest fruits, light floral notes of roses, a tertiary hint of gamey meat, a touch of dusty earth and a whiff of blueberry juice. The wine is firm, bone-dry and surprisingly youthful on the palate with a medium body and intense flavors of sour cherries and crunchy cranberries, some tobacco, a little bit of dried flowers, light salty notes of beef jerky, tart hints of crowberries and fresh red plums and a touch of earth. The overall feel is getting quite resolved, although the firm medium-plus tannins still retain some nice grip. However, the structure relies more on the remarkably high and brisk acidity rather than on the tannins. The finish is dry, robust and somewhat grippy with a long, complex aftertaste of crunchy cranberries and sour cherries, some ferrous notes of blood, a little bit of salty beef jerky, a hint of dried flowers and a touch of pipe tobacco.
  
  A fantastic, so complex and beautifully fine-tuned old Barbaresco. This is not a big and arresting wine that would stop you on your tracks immediately; no, this is a piece of art you might just pass by in a hurry, but if you stop to marvel at it, you'll soon notice the layers upon layers here. Although not the best Nebbiolo I've tasted, this wine is still getting close to a perfection - if I want to have an aged Barbaresco, this is basically the kind of wine I have in my mind. Extraordinary stuff.

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  6/15/2021 - Topper wrote:

  Dead

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  4/1/2021 - NoahCap wrote:

  Very aged, very fragile, almost completely over the hill. The color of the wine is beyond bricked- at this point it’s straight up orange. The nose is mostly bland, some leather, some earth, dried florals, no fruit at all. Initially the wine is undrinkable, though becomes sort-of drinkable over the course of an hour or so in the decanter. There is a vinegary note that recedes to leave some faint fruit and earthiness that somewhat integrates. Finish is short. Any complexity is no more than a dry tumbleweed blowing across the palate. It falls off after a couple of hours and becomes undrinkable again. Tannins are non-existent. There is an incredible amount of sediment in this bottle, and I can’t help but imagine all the wonderful flavors that this sediment once held decades ago before it all came settling to the bottom of the bottle as a bitter sludge. I bet this wine was wonderful 20 years ago.

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  11/17/2020 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 89 Points

  The fact that this wine was a little bit of a disappointment says more about my expectations for wines from the Produttori...
  The wine was served fairly cloudy. Tasting it, the wine clearly peaked 5-10 years ago and has started to fall apart.
  I have no doubt at all that this was for many years a very enjoyable wine. It still shows classic aged Barbaresco characteristics but it has lost its focus and is fading

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  11/26/2018 - Lombardi wrote: 94 Points

  Another fantastic bottle of the '67 Moccagatta. Last tried this on Jan 2015 and this continues to show the same elegance and life as before. Dried roses, violets, and a good “pinosity” note on the nose. The intensity of the nose held strong for the entire time the wine was in the glass. The notes on the palate were just as elegant as the ones on the nose – extremely classy Nebbiolo. Perfectly well balanced structure.

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