Description

Red Wine: 2012 | Mascarello Giuseppe e Figlio | Monprivato

Intensely fragrant, this offers enticing scents of woodland berry, violet, rose, aromatic herb and new leather.

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Producer: Mascarello Giuseppe e Figlio

Ratings: WA | 94 WS | 95

Vintage: 2012

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Nebbiolo

Country/Region: Italy, Piedmont

Intensely fragrant, this offers enticing scents of woodland berry, violet, rose, aromatic herb and new leather. Elegantly structured, the linear palate is all about finesse, delivering red cherry, pomegranate, white pepper and licorice framed in firm refined tannins.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2012 Barolo Monprivato is a polished and bright wine that delivers a profound and beautiful array of delicate aromas. These tiny, petite threads of cherry, wild berry, ash, smoked spice and grilled herb converge with unity to produce the intensity and purpose that ultimately defines this beautiful wine.

• Wine Spectator: A mix of chocolate, cherry, earth and tar flavors are allied to a dense structure in this red. Initially tannic, this needs several hours of aeration to reveal its true personality, delivering cherry, leather, licorice and spice flavors that marry harmoniously with the silky texture, with excellent length.

Producer Information

Mascarello Giuseppe e Figlio is a prestigious Barolo producer in Piemonte, northwest Italy. The company has been closely associated with the Monprivato vineyard, one of the so-called Barolo crus, since the 1920s, and the single vineyard Monprivato Barolo has become Giuseppe Mascarello’s flagship wine. Giuseppe Mascarello himself tended vineyards in the Langhe in the 19th Century before buying his own site in 1881, and this date is often appended to the producer’s name. In 1904, his son purchased a part of the Monprivato vineyard and began to make wines there. Fourth-generation Mauro Mascarello took over the running of the estate in 1967, and began making a single-vineyard Monprivato wine in 1970. The famous six-hectare (15-acre) cru became a monopole of Giuseppe Mascarello in 1990. The Monprivato vineyard’s southwesterly aspect and limestone-rich soils has made it one of Barolo’s most coveted properties, considered ideal for the Nebbiolo grape variety. In the 1980s, a clone of Nebbiolo called Micht was planted in a small part of the vineyard as an experiment which became the estate’s highly regarded Monprivato C d’Morisso cuve. This, alongside the regular Monprivato, is only made in outstanding vintages. The estate prefers traditional winemaking methods, with long fermentations and wines aged in large Slavonian oak casks known as “botti”. There is little intervention in the vineyard and grapes are harvested by hand. Giuseppe Mascarello makes several other single-vineyard Barolos, including those from the Santo Stefano di Perno and Villero. The estate also makes several single-vineyard Barbera d’Alba wines, and a Dolcetto d’Alba.