1967 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva Speciale Martinenga

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 93 points

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  11/9/2023 - KVT99 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very long, mouth full of of red cherries and lingonberries. Some structure remaining despite its age. Cork didnt look great but turned out was fine after it got some air. I liked it more than others!

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  2/12/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  A lovely spicy nose of cardamom, dried flowers and grated ginger. There's some truffle and cedar too. It is a rich wine, with good flesh and intensity. It still has structure and substance and balance is terrific. Length powers on. A very good showing.

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  10/11/2022 - forceberry wrote: 95 Points

  The fruit is sourced from Cru Martinenga, the monopole vineyard of Marchesi di Grésy, and I believe this is the only bottling Produttori has made from this vineyard as Marchesi di Grésy left Produttori somewhere in the late 1960s or early 1970s to create his own winery. The "Riserva Speciale" supposedly denotes the bottle is aged for four years in oak bottis instead of the normal three for Riservas. Bottle #6838 of total 11640 (0,72-liter) bottles. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite translucent, somewhat evolved and moderately translucent brick-red color. The nose feels somewhat restrained yet still wonderfully fragrant characterful with a haunting bouquet of wizened raspberries and raisiny dark fruits, some gamey tones, a little bit of minty lift, light notes of pine tar, hints of gingerbread and Christmas spices and a touch of pipe tobacco. The wine feels dry, harmonious and very fine-tuned on the palate with a wonderful silky texture, a medium body and distinctive flavors of chinotto rind and almost Campari-like bitterness, some wild strawberry notes, a little bit of ripe red cherry, light floral notes of roses, a hint of exotic spices and a touch of tar. The wine is high in acidity with firm, textural medium tannins. The finish is long, somewhat grippy and harmonious with an evolved, dry aftertaste of ripe red cherries and wild strawberries, some sour cherry bitterness, a little bit of tart lingonberry, light floral notes of dried roses, a hint of pipe tobacco and a fragrant touch of chinotto zest.
  
  A fantastic, harmonious and very characterful old Barbaresco at its peak. Although not the most exceptional wine in our tasting of old Produttori Riservas, this was still among the best bottles and probably the most distinctive one with its haunting, perfumed aromas and flavors. It's a shame Produttori couldn't make any more vintages of this Cru - it seems there was some serious potential for really wonderful and individual wines!

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  10/14/2019 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  Some wines at Thierry's place (June 2019): Served non-blind. Cloudy, looking a little like an amber, natural wine. Not a very appealing bouquet. Maderised with dry sherry, toffee, orange peel and some dried cherry and fig aromas. If you don't look at or smell it too much, in the mouth, it's surprisingly alive! It still has some lively fruit, with old Barolo or Barbaresco flavours of Campari and blood orange, with earth and sottobosco elements. Savoury and umami. Quite poignant. Drinking very well for a 52 year old! The WoTN.

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  12/20/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  I should have given this more than the three hour decant that I did. It finally cracked open to reveal its charms about half way through the bottle. At first it was all antique furniture and earth. You get a whiff of Indian spice and the fruit still has redness about it. Some decaying roses come to the fore towards the end and it has good intensity and chewy tannins with lingering flavours of soy and reducing meats. Length is impressive.

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