Mura Mura Barbaresco DOCG Starderi 2021

92 POINTS

James Suckling

Restrained fresh violets, roses and fresh red currants. Focused more on elegance than power, with a medium to full body, crisp acidity, velvety tannins and a tight, youthful finish. Needs time to develop more complexity, yet there’s potential. Try from 2026.

92 POINTS

Falstaff

Bright ruby red with a garnet touch. Elegant bouquet, with notes of fine wood savouriness, subtle ethereal cherry fruit, with leather and some cold smoke behind it. Silky on the palate, fine-grained tannins, lots of tension, lingering, juicy finish.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

From one of the great crus in Neive, along with Albesani and Serraboella etc. 2415 bottles produced. Raised in 25hl French oak and then in 400l ceramic anfora. Some of the Starderi is blended into their village Barbaresco, which solves the equation around why there’s less than 2500 litres of this wine produced. Red cherry, spice, liquorice, dried flowers, and something of a stony ‘mineral’ quality. It’s medium-bodied, cherry and strawberry, a curious sort of bacon bone character in the mix, a dry silty tannin grip, with red fruits, orange peel and spice carrying on a finish of good length. A bit chunky and robust in character, shudders a bit though the palate, but a pretty good wine all up.