Moccagatta Riserva Rouge
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-cooked beef stews, roasted wild game, and rich pasta dishes topped with shaved truffles or aged mountain cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Produttori del Barbaresco Moccagatta Riserva is a profound testament to the power of cooperative winemaking and the unique terroir of the Langhe. Established in 1958 by the local priest, Don Fiorino Marengo, to support struggling grape growers, this cooperative has become a global benchmark for Nebbiolo. The Moccagatta vineyard, a steep amphitheater facing southeast, is characterized by compact clay and limestone soils. This specific cru yields a Barbaresco known for its striking balance of power and elegance, displaying intense floral aromas, dark cherry, and balsamic undertones. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, the wine undergoes a long maceration and is aged for 36 months in traditional large Slavonian oak casks, allowing the Nebbiolo grape's natural structure and terroir to shine without the influence of dominant wood flavors.
🍾 About the Producer
Widely revered as the gold standard of viticultural cooperatives, Produttori del Barbaresco traces its ideological ancestry to Domizio Cavazza's 1894 Cantine Sociali, before its modern rebirth in 1958 orchestrated by local parish priest Don Fiorino Marengo and nineteen grower families. Today comprising over 50 member-growers managing approximately 120 hectares exclusively planted to Nebbiolo across the commune of Barbaresco, the cooperative oversees quintessential Langhe terroir characterized by calcareous-clay Sant'Agata marls and steep, sun-drenched hillsides. Under the longstanding stewardship of Managing Director Aldo Vacca, Produttori follows an unapologetically traditional cellar regimen: spontaneous temperature-controlled fermentations, month-long skin macerations with submerged caps, and lengthy maturation exclusively in massive neutral Slavonian oak botti. In premier vintages, the cellar vinifies nine legendary single-vineyard crus identically—including Asili, Rabajà, Montestefano, Ovello, and Pajè—to transparently showcase microclimate and soil nuances, yielding structured, classically austere, and exceptionally ageworthy Nebbiolo expressions.
🍇 Grapes
100% Nebbiolo