Barolo, 2017

Name: Barolo
Brand: Azelia
Price: 468.65 GBP

Available Vintages

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justerini & brooks tasting note

An even mix of red and dark berry fruit with underlying resinous and balsamic notes providing some interest. Ripe but surprisingly juicy, hearty flavours; enveloping, open-knit and very welcoming with excellent complexity for a “regular” Barolo! Made from a selection of grapes from 45 year old vines across five different Crus from the Castiglione (30% percent) and Serralunga (70%) communes. The wine is aged in large slavonian oak "botti" / barrels, so there is very little oak influence.

critic reviews

91/100Monica Larner,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The Azelia 2017 Barolo is fine and elegant, opening to a pretty ruby color that catches the ambient light. To the nose, it offers cherry and wild rose with licorice and campfire ash. You do notice the extra heft and dryness of the tannins, especially when the wine is tasted before its ideal drinking window. Luigi Scavino's classic Barolo is a blend of seven vineyard sites: Altenasso and Solanotto in Castiglione Falletto; a part of Cerretta; the youngest vines in Bricco Voghera that are 55 to 60 years old (the fruit from the 90-year-old plants goes to the Riserva); and parts of San Rocco, Cerrati and Broglio in Serralunga d'Alba. Production stands at about 28,000 bottles.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2038

date of review 06/2021

91/100Antonio Galloni,Vinous

The 2017 Barolo is a gorgeous entry-level wine. Scorched earth, tar, licorice, black cherry and gravel give the Barolo an unusually dark, brooding profile in 2017. As it often is, the 2017 Azelia Barolo offers tremendous character and nuance in its peer group, or any peer group for that matter. Translucent and so expressive, the 2017 has a lot to offer.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2035

date of review 02/2021