Barolo, Margheria, 2019

Name: Barolo, Margheria
Brand: Azelia
Price: 510.32 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

A livewire Barolo, compact, plummy fruits, with nervy, herbal, salty, iodine-rich pixellated dark and red berries, all cleaned up by a surge of electrifying freshness and sinewy tannins. A mineral Barolo of spine and nerve. From a prime south and southwest facing 55-year-old plot in the Serralunga d'Alba commune planted on white clay and limestone soils. Azelia’s vines sit alongside those used for Gaja’s Sperss. Aged in the traditional way, for 28 months in large Slavonian oak botti.

critic reviews

91/100Antonio Galloni,Vinous

The 2019 Barolo Margheria is laced with sage, menthol, licorice, underbrush, dried herbs and sage. This sinewy Serralunga Barolo has good depth, although it is on the lighter side structurally for this cru. Nevertheless, the wine's persistence makes up for that to some degree.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2034

date of review 11/2023

95+/100Monica Larner,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Azelia makes three wines with fruit from Serralunga d'Alba, including San Rocco, Cerretta and this wine. There is also a Riserva from Bricco Voghera. The 2019 Barolo Margheria comes from a southwest facing slope opposite the Perno Vineyard. The site has very poor soils with white clay, and the vines (aged 65 years old on average) are forced to push their roots very deep as a result. This wine has a tight and very firm personality with dark fruit, rusty nail, dusty mineral and tight structure. Those rusty mineral aromas give it away as Serralunga d'Alba. This is an age-worthy wine, with 5,900 bottles released.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2045

date of review 08/2023