Azelia
Barolo, Cerretta, 2018
95/100
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
94/100
The Wine Independent
87/100
Vinous
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2018
75cl
DP
£93.05
2018
6x75cl
DP
£558.32
Justerini & Brooks Tasting note
A lifting, fresh nose of aromatic red fruit and alpine herbs. Silkier than the sterner San Rocco, boasting sensual red berry and cherry fruit mixed with notes of wild herb, undergrowth, and a hint of salted blood orange. A charmer. 3000 bottles were made. The Azelias have one big block of 2.5ha here, but only 3500 bottles are produced as the Cru bottling. The wine is aged in one big barrel for 30 months. Most of the rest of the wine is declassified and blended into the Barolo. Originally, they rented the plot and they replanted it entirely while under rental agreement. They then bought ten years later. This was thirty years ago. It has been Luigi Scavino’s baby from start to finish. 2016 was the first vintage vinified separately. The soils are a blend of clay, limestone and chalk.
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We store clients’ wines with a subsidiary company called Cellarers (Wines) Ltd, which is wholly owned by Justerini & Brooks but where clients’ wines are segregated from our own stock. The wines are stored at Octavian's industry-leading underground cellars in Corsham, Wiltshire, UK. All wines stored with Cellarers are individually labelled with clients’ details and are insured to current market value.
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We offer regular shipments to Hong Kong from £90 per 9L case and £62 per 4.5L case. A discounted rate of £72 per 9L case may apply when shipping five or more cases to one address. Deliveries usually take approximately three weeks.
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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.
We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.
We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.
The Journey
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.
This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.
While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.
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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.
Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.
Critic Reviews
95/100
Monica Larner,
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The Azelia 2018 Barolo Cerretta is a bold and powerful expression with dark fruit, grilled herb and ferrous notes of rusty iron that stand out strong in this hot vintage. The wine tastes firm and almost salty on the palate with long, polished tannins. This bottle is a shiny gem in this estate portfolio.
drinking window 2024 - 2045
date of review 08/2022
94/100
Susan Hulme,
The Wine Independent
The 2018 Azelia Barolo Ceretta has lots of immediate spice cream top notes combined with very clean new oak and flower notes. On standing, iris aromas appear. It is medium-bodied and has a beautiful flowing texture and weight - some of that weightless quality that great wines have - and elegant and refined savory tannins. It doesn't have huge concentration but is very charming and seductive. It might need more mid-palate concentration but has a beautiful drinkability and ease with juicy freshness. Drink now to 15 years.
drinking window 2022 - 2037
date of review 07/2022
87/100
Antonio Galloni,
Vinous
The 2018 Barolo Cerretta is another wine in this range that comes across as dried out and lacking fruit, with only modest site expression. In 2018, the Cerretta is decidedly fleeting, with modest complexity and not much in the way of depth.
drinking window 2023 - 2030
date of review 02/2022
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