Azelia

Barolo, Bricco Fiasco, 2014

Name: Barolo, Bricco Fiasco
Brand: Azelia
Price: 1012.86 GBP

91+/100

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2014
12x75cl
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£1,012.86

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

With its perfumed, sweet red berry fruit, this shows all of the allure and charm it usually does but with a rare focus and spark. A beautifully clear and fine structure is overlaid by intense small red berry and cherry fruit with a touch of rose hip. Stylish and vital. Superb The Bricco Fiasco is a relatively sandy plot at the top of the Fiasco hill in Castiglione Falletto, planted with 70 year old vines. Contrary to the regular Barolo the wine is aged in oak barriques, but only 10% new wood, again to limit oak influence - a direction Azelia have been going in for some years now. This sandy soil gives incredibly aromatic and fruity characteristics to the wine.

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We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Critic Reviews

91+/100

Antonio Galloni,

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The 2014 Barolo Bricco Fiasco is a typical wine for the vintage. Sweet red cherry, pomegranate, smoke, iron and dried rose petal build in this super-classic, light to medium-bodied Barolo from Azelia. The wine displays lovely persistence and grip but, like all of the 2014s here, is tightly wound and a bit edgy.

drinking window 2020 - 2034

date of review 02/2018

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.