The Giuseppe Cortese 2016 Barbera d'Alba Morassina offers a ripe side with lots of black fruit and plum. This is a thick and succulent wine with blackberry and prune that segue slowly to bitter almond and tilled earth. The presentation is simple and linear, and the ultimate takeaway here is the natural freshness of the Barbera fruit. It finishes on a tart and bright high note after 18 months of aging in Slavonian oak cask and barrique. Some 8,000 bottles were produced.