Paolo Scavino

Barolo, Prapo, 2017

Name: Barolo, Prapo
Brand: Paolo Scavino
Price: 366.32 GBP

94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

95+/100

Vinous

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2017
6x75cl
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£366.32
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Alluring velvety dark fruits. This has a lovely purity, and suave, elastic tannins that shape around the ripe yet sapid fruit. Charming, teasing the fruits are dark yet also quite alpine, with an iron like undertone. Nicely crafted and poised. Enrico bought the plot in 2008 and re-worked the soil, planting the vineyard in 2010 with a massale selection from across the estate. So, despite their young age, the vines here are producing less bunches and smaller grapes than under the previous ownership. It is an open and windy site, steep and south facing. The soils are red sand and marl giving structure and potential to the wine.

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Critic Reviews

94/100

Monica Larner,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

This is a bold and opulent wine that sources its fruit from Serralunga d'Alba. The Paolo Scavino 2017 Barolo Prapo delivers rich fruit weight, with plummy black fruit, blackcurrant, iron ore, spice and cured spice. The vines at this site were replanted in 2008 and the fruit shows depth and authenticity, thanks to their advancing age. You get lingering mineral tones of rust and iron that marry this wine to a sense of place. The finish is bold but moderate in length.

drinking window 2024 - 2045

date of review 06/2021

95+/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2017 Barolo Prapò is yet another stellar wine in this range. Dark and brooding in the glass, the Prapò expresses all of the natural weight of this Serralunga cru, but with more overt fruit and a bit less tannic heft than is often the case. That should make the 2017 a real pleasure to drink, with just a handful of years in the cellar. Succulent black cherry, licorice, menthol, gravel and cured meats build into the heady finish.

drinking window 2027 - 2047

date of review 02/2021

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