2013
6x75cl
DP
£980.42
vintage
portfolio
2013
6x75cl
DP
£980.42
2013
1x1.5L
DP
£337.61
A very exciting release, the Riserva Bricco Voghera 2013 finally sees the light of day after ten years in the cellar. A wine of detail and finesse with intricate layers of sparkling blue fruits and just a trace of truffle on the nose, there is a great feeling of intention to this. Lavishly spiced it also shows notes of balsamic, sandalwood and tobacco, but these play supporting roles to its overall sense of freshness and style. It can be broached now or cellared comfortably for another twenty years. The vines here average 100 years old. A south facing Serralunga plot of 0.85ha at 360m, the soils are clay-limestone and the wine is raised in large cask for five years and a further five years in bottle. It is only bottled in the best vintages.
Owner Luigi Scavino, cousin and neighbour of Piemonte legend Enrico Scavino, started off life as one of the typical modern Piedmont producers: no expense was spared as new oak was used for the top wines, yields were low and the sparkling new fermenting vats were of stainless steel. Many of these aspects still apply however Azelia have refined their techniques enormously over the years, rarely using more than 20% new oak and employing large botti casks as well as barriques for the ageing process. They are now very among Barolo's leading lights. They produce a superb Dolcetto planted at 500 metres above sea level on a south facing slope in th prime Montelupo district and their oak-aged Barbera is extremely fine too. All of their Nebbiolo holdings are spread out over the Castiglione Falletto and Serralunga regions where the vine produces full bodied, intense and complex wines. The top two wines are the ethereal but powerful Bricco Fiasco frmo Castiglione (the same vineyard as Scavino's Bric del Fiasc) and the explosive, spicy San Rocco from Serralunga. In only the best of vintages a Barolo Riserva is made from the ideally situated vineyard in Serralunga, Voghera.
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