Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota, 2016 Champagne Hure 091324 First American winery to produce

First American winery to produce méthode traditionnelle sparkling wine from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir

then 42 months in 30-hectoliter Austrian oak casks

This Barbaresco Riserva is a wine meant for slow sipping

and planted Sauvignon Blanc where his neighbors grew easy Schiava

food-friendly white that does the work of a serious Loire or Rhône bottling at a Tuesday-night frequency

Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Muncagota, 2016 Champagne Hure 091324 First American winery to produceMuncagota, the cru long known as Moccagatta, is prized for combining intensity with elegance, a more aromatic, balanced expression among Produttori del Barbaresco's single vineyards; the winery itself describes floral notes of brushwood, mint and eucalyptus. 2016 was a classic Piedmont season, with a cool spring, a dry temperate summer and a long sunny September that let Nebbiolo ripen gradually into mid October, which sharpens Muncagota's aromatics