Marco Marengo

Barolo, Brunate, Riserva, 2011

Name: Barolo, Brunate, Riserva
Brand: Marco Marengo
Price: 407.53 GBP

94+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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all 2011 2012 2013 2016 2017 2018 2019

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2011
75cl
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£67.92
2011
6x75cl
DP
£407.53

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2011
6x75cl
DP
£274.33

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Voluptuous, enveloping and ample but without being over the top. Classy and profound, this offers a myriad of bold, dark hedgerow and forest fruit flavours with an added savoury dimension of undergrowth, cinnamon and cooling minerals. Big and very beautiful. This is the same wine as the Vecchie Vigne only since the 2009 vintage it is now released as a Riserva, a change purely in name only. From a single parcel of old vines within Brunate planted in 1942, produced in the same way as the other Cru wines – aged for 24 months in 25% new oak barrels - but kept an extra two years in bottle. Only 800 bottles were made.

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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.

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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.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

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

94+/100

Monica Larner,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2011 Barolo Riserva Brunate is released after seeing two extra years in the bottle (as opposed to barrel). Fruit is selected from the oldest vines planted within Marengo's one-hectare plot of Brunate. The 2013 annata Barolo shows more sweetness and bright fruit. This riserva expression, on the other hand, offers an even more rigid quality of tannic firmness with less of a fresh-fruit margin. This wine will be produced in 2012, 2013 and likely in 2015 and 2016. The 2014 vintage will definitely be skipped. This is a layered and rich expression that still needs time to peel back and develop in slow motion.

drinking window 2018 - 2035

date of review 08/2017

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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.