Barolo, Margheria, 2020

Super smart and very finely carved, not aggressive but tapered, the tannins more complete and less austere than they have at times been. Hedgerow fruits with herbs and salts, soil and wild heather. Long and smart and mouthwatering. Intensity without density. The plots within Margheria are quite spread out so creates a difference of altitude 100m. 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.