Produttori Barbaresco Centennario Riserva 1990

Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Centenario Riserva Magnum 1990

This is a special bottling only in magnum to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the original Produttori del Barbaresco. Centenario is Italian for centenary or centennial. Only 2000 such Centenario Riserva Magnums were produced.

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According to John Gilman's View From the Cellar in his special report, The Produttori del Barbaresco: The Wine World's Most Amazing Cooperative (Jul/Aug 2009, Issue #22):

This is a special bottling that was released in 1994 only in magnums to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first cooperative in Barbaresco, the Cantine Sociali di Barbaresco, which was the first winery to use the name Barbaresco for its wines when it opened its doors in 1894. In a perfect world the 1994 vintage would have been excellent and allowed the Produttori to mark the centennial of its spiritual predecessor with wines from the one hundred year mark, but Mother Nature did not cooperate, and the winery decided instead to make a special bottling of a blend of old vines from the vineyards of Ovello, Pora, Montestefano and Asili.