Azelia

Barolo, San Rocco, 1996

Name: Barolo, San Rocco
Brand: Azelia

91-93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

Vinous

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A first class single vineyard from the Serralunga commune whose wines are very distinct from those of Bricco Fiasco, showing this zone’s tell-tale signs of liquorice, spice and dark fruits. The vines are between 40 and 50 years old and the wine is aged in 20% new wood for 24 months. A monumental Barolo one of the greats of the vintage. All of the liquorice character you get from Serralunga with the sophistication of Bricco Fiasco yet more complex still, there is a distinct undergrowth and earthy minerality that Azelia's other wines don't have. Very intense powerful but very focused not at all too burly or out of control, linear, mouth filling dark bramble, cherry, currant and strawberry fruit, with spicy notes of liquorice, cinnamon, pepper and herb.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 1996 Barolo San Rocco has also held up well. Scorched earth, smoke, tar, tobacco, licorice, incense and dark-fleshed fruits all build in the glass. Powerful and direct, the 1996 should continue to drink well for at least another few years. This is a very beautiful, expressive, suave Barolo from Luigi Scavino. The Azelia San Rocco remains one of the most unheralded and overlooked wines in Barolo. In 1996, the San Rocco was aged in French oak barrels, about 40% new.

drinking window 2016 - 2021

date of review 10/2017

91-93/100

Robert Parker,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 1996 Barolo San Rocco possesses a spicy, cedar box, fruitcake, and cherry liqueur-scented nose, a sweet, full-bodied personality with loads of glycerin, evidence of charred wood, oak, and a rich, multilayered, low acid, structured/delineated finish. It is a big, mouth filling Barolo with considerable complexity. Anticipated maturity: 2002-2020. A Marc de Grazia Selection, various American importers, including Michael Skurnik, Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300, Vin Divino, Chicago, IL; tel. (773) 334-6700, and Estate Wines, Ltd., San Rafael, CA; tel. (415) 492-9411

drinking window 2002 - 2020

date of review 08/1999

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