Azelia

Barolo, Margheria, 2021

Name: Barolo, Margheria
Brand: Azelia
Price: 135 GBP

93/100

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2021
6x75cl
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£375.00
2021
1x1.5L
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£135.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Blackberries and salts and dried herbs dominate the profile of the Margheria 2021, put together with great freshness and tight tannins, in a vintage that really suits the natural expressoin of the site. A really good Margheria, with the requisite power and linearity to age well – the best in recent years. The different plots within Margheria are quite spread out, which creates a difference in altitude of 100m depending on where you are. Azelia’s vines come from a prime south and southwest facing 55-year-old plot in the Serralunga d'Alba commune planted on white clay and limestone soils. They sit alongside those used for Gaja’s Sperss. Aged in the traditional way, for 28 months in large Slavonian oak botti.

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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.

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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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Critic Reviews

93/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2021 Barolo Margheria is dense, powerful and rather somber. Black fruit, lavender, espresso and gravel add to an impression of gravitas. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2021 is an infant. Muscular tannins make themselves known on the finish. This feels a bit raw and not totally put together yet.

drinking window 2026 - 2033

date of review 01/2025

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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.