Barolo, San Rocco, 2017

Name: Barolo, San Rocco
Brand: Azelia
Price: 510.32 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

A different expression of Serralunga, offering rich, powerful fruit with a minerality that sits much more in the background. Big flavours of dark fruit, cinnamon spice and mocha roll and expand across the palate, enveloping the senses as the go. Muscular, complex, rich and bold. An Azelia monopole San Rocco is a top notch Serralunga vineyard that faces south and south west, where the soils are practically 100% clay, a very hard compact grey clay. The vines are 65 years old and the wine is aged in the same way as the Bricco Fiasco, for 24 months – half of which are in 8% new oak barriques and half in large used oak botti.

critic reviews

92/100Monica Larner,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The Azelia 2017 Barolo San Rocco shows some tightness and firmness initially, but it ultimately reveals an open and accessible quality of fruit with dried raspberry, cherry and wild plum. Those fruit flavors take a sudden turn to embrace some of the more mineral aromas associated with Serralunga d'Alba, such as iron ore and rusty nail. This hot and dry vintage release of 7,500 bottles doesn't show the same depth or complexity that we saw in the classic 2016 growing season. Instead, this wine is fruit forward and a little more contoured and streamlined overall. On the close, you do get a point of dusty astringency that should subside with time.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2042

date of review 06/2021

94/100Antonio Galloni,Vinous

The 2017 Barolo San Rocco is powerful and tightly wound. All of its energy is focused inward today. There is terrific brightness and focus to the red berry fruit, but the 2017 is not in a mood to show much today. Readers will have to be patient. I am encourage by the wine's solid feel and pure power.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2042

date of review 02/2021