Barbera d'Alba Superiore Marun 2022

Description

Marun organic still red Barbera d'Alba Superiore, 14.5% ABV, produced by Matteo Correggia. Vintage 2022. A wine that embodies the passion and dedication of Matteo Correggia, a producer who has elevated Barbera d'Alba to a level of excellence. A concentrated nose with notes of dark fruits such as blackberries, morello cherries, blueberries, and plums, alternating with black pepper, cocoa, cloves, cardamom, vanilla, licorice, balsamic accents, and the incipient etherealness of tobacco and Russian leather. Ruby red in color with violet reflections. On the palate, it is superb, with its full correspondence, masterful balance of its components, acidity, and silky tannins already integrated into the vigorous body. The endless finish is punctuated by graphite, cinchona, and Boero emerging in the aftertaste.

Details

Perfume

Equally concentrated nose of black fruits such as blackberries, morello cherries, blueberries and plums, alternating with black pepper, cocoa, clove, cardamom, vanilla, liquorice, balsamic accents and incipient ethereality of tobacco and Russian leather.

Color

Ruby red with violet reflections.

Taste

Superlative mouthfeel for full correspondence, masterful balance of components, acid backbone and silky tannins already integrated in the vigorous body. The persistence, interminable, is rounded off by graphite, cinchona and Boer surfacing in the aftertaste.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Producer

Producer

Matteo Correggia

From this winery

• Start up year: 1985
• Oenologist: Luca Rostagno, Giovanni Correggia
• Bottles produced: 150.000
• Hectares: 19

With grapes produced in over 20 hectares of vineyards and managed personally, Matteo Correggia produces a wide range of wines. Starting at the foundations - the four grape varieties that are symbolic of this region - Matteo reached the absolute top in producing the Nebbiolo d'Alba and Barbera d'Alba wines, before bringing to life the Roero and Roero Arneis wines. The wines are naturally the products of the ground where grapevines put down their roots: sandy ground that has little clay or silt and is very loose and therefore extremely suitable to produce rich and refined bouquets.

All the wines by Matteo Correggia are the result of personal experience, and there is no room for fashion or doctrine. The concern has always persevered when the results have been good, but never stopping to dare or consider what could be done better. Wine making takes place in modern wine cellars, in stainless stell vats at controlled temperature, while ageing is done in the large rooms created under the hill where Marun first began, in contact with the fossil rich millennial marlstones, that give them the dampness and quitness necessary as the perfect compliment to the whole process in the vineyards and wine cellars. the barrels and casks are carefully selected for the wines they will host, and gradually replaced according to a twenty-years pratice geared to avoid olfactory impact from the wood. All wines are bottled on the premises, in dedicated areas, where a large warehouse for stocking the bottles underground is attacched. The bottles are also labeled here, in keeping with Matteo Correggia Concer tradition. They are decorated with paintings by Coco Cano depictiong the gentle slopes planted with vines and bathed by the roero's hot sun. Read more

Piedmont

Technical Sheet

Name	Matteo Correggia Barbera d'Alba Superiore Marun 2022
Type	Red organic still
Denomination	Barbera d'Alba DOC
Vintage	2022
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	14.5% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Barbera
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Vendor	Matteo Correggia
Origin	Canale (CN)
Climate	Altitudin: 290-310 m. a.s.l. Exposure: south.
Soil composition	Single vineyard Marun (64% fine sand, 4% coarse sand, 30% silt, 2% clay).
Cultivation system	Guyot espalier.
Plants per hectare	5.000-5800 vines per hectare .
Yield per hectare	45 h/Ha
Harvest	Manual at the end of September.
Wine making	8 0 days of maceration on the skins in steel.
Aging	At least 15 months in 30 hl barrels and used small wood. At least 10 months in bottle.
Allergens	Contains sulphites