Barolo, Margheria, 2014

Name: Barolo, Margheria
Brand: Azelia
Price: 947.06 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

More sinew and structure than the Bricco Fiasco fleshed out with dark but very fresh fruit and a cooling minerality. Juicy bramble and blueberry flavours with notes of crushed rock salt and chalk. High definition, intense flavours with an impressive well-balanced structure. From a prime south and south west facing 55 year old plot in the Serralunga d'Alba commune planted on white clay and limestone soils. Aged in the traditional way, for 28 months in large slavonian oak casks - "botti

critic reviews

92/100Monica Larner,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Here is a darker and more robust wine from Serralunga d'Alba where soils are heavier. They also show a greater presence of clay and limestone. The 2014 Barolo Margheria is made with fruit from 50-year-old vines and shows compact and dense aromatic intensity as a result. The bouquet is constructed on top of thick layers of dark fruit, dried cherry, balsam herb and crushed mineral. The 2014 mouthfeel, however, veers toward the lean and compact side of the Barolo spectrum.

DRINKING WINDOW 2020 - 2035

date of review 06/2018

94/100Antonio Galloni,Vinous

The 2014 Barolo Margheria opens with beguiling, deep-pitched aromatics. Bright red cherry and plum fruit, licorice, anise, rose water and orange peel are some of the many notes that give the wine its personality. Bright, saline and sculpted in feel, the 2014 is going to need a few years to fully unwind, but it is unquestionably vibrant and expressive today. The 2014 spent three years in cask.

DRINKING WINDOW 2022 - 2039

date of review 02/2018