Cantina Bartolo Mascarello
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Cantina Bartolo Mascarello,
Ready, but will keep,
Unlike the previous 2007 vintage, Mascarello Bartolo’s 2008 Nebbiolo fruit was harvested with more bunches (as no hail damage), more acidity, a lower pH and a lower level of alcohol. In 2008 Maria Teresa held her nerve until after the September rains and harvested the rewards under the October sun. Almost ruby in colour, there is emphatic loganberry and currant fruit, ripeness, distilled kirsch and griottine fruit.
(David Berry Green, BBR Italian Buyer)
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Cantina Bartolo Mascarello,
Ready, but will improve,
Yields were down 20 percent at Bartolo Mascarello in 2012 due to a hail storm that hit the Rocche dell’Annunziata vineyard. This, combined with a comparatively short maceration of 20 days and minimal racking, have contrived to make Mascarello’s 2012 Barolo one of the most delicate, ethereal and Pinot-like in recent years. With air, this rose-petal Barolo is timid, creeping slowly out into the limelight. Maria Teresa aged the wine partly in the two new 50hl garbellotto botti, giving it a sandalwood edge to the rose, coal tar and orange-skin notes. There’s great finesse on the palate, with cool, red-berry crunch and sapid, svelte lines: this is racy yet served on a cushion of sweet red fruit. Such lift!
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£945.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
£975.00
Magnum 6 x 150cl 1cs
£2,445.00
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Cantina Bartolo Mascarello,
For laying down,
Beautifully perfumed nose with gentle aromas of rose petal, cassis and kirsch, a hint of pepper and eucalyptus. Very pretty on the palate, with an energetic redcurrant and cassis fruit core and refreshing acidity, against a mineral spine. Silky tannins, elegance, poise and precision. Excellent length. Drink 2022+
Katherine Dart MW, Wine Buyer
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Cantina Bartolo Mascarello,
Ready, but will improve,
Garnet rose in colour, with a very prim sapid red currant and rose petal perfume, immaculately turned out; perfectly poised both on the nose and taste, with great energy as well as composure. They had grubbed up the oldest part of their Cannubi vineyard earlier in the year, so perhaps the fragrant, suave character of the equally fine, if less talked about Rocche dell’Annunziata vineyard in La Morra played a greater role in the vintage 2010 blend. Either way it’s gorgeously intense, with more of that smooth redcurrant zip, of tiny cassis fruit, and tension. Very neat.
David Berry Green
Rich and intense, with dark-plum and liquorice aromas that envelop a pure, bright core, this wine is all about the texture. It has a cashmere-like mouthfeel, with finely integrated fruit tannins which are expertly married with its muscle and assertiveness. Volumes of dark fruit and a hint of sour cherry remain consistent across the palate, while its classy, persistent length – intense yet accessible – rolls out on the finish. It’s the perfect blend of masculine and feminine characteristics.
Peter Newton - Private Account Manager
David Berry Green
Rich and intense, with dark-plum and liquorice aromas that envelop a pure, bright core, this wine is all about the texture. It has a cashmere-like mouthfeel, with finely integrated fruit tannins which are expertly married with its muscle and assertiveness. Volumes of dark fruit and a hint of sour cherry remain consistent across the palate, while its classy, persistent length – intense yet accessible – rolls out on the finish. It’s the perfect blend of masculine and feminine characteristics.
Peter Newton - Private Account Manager
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£2,500.00
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£2,550.00
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Bottle 1 x 75cl 1cs
£320.00
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
£1,000.00
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Cantina Bartolo Mascarello,
Ready, but will keep,
While vintage 2004 was darker and fulsome, Maria Teresa's 2005 lifts the soul with a spirited spicy red fruit perfume, a delicate, gentle, velvety cherry stone palate and a sublime quality that perhaps only the Cantina Mascarello Bartolo can muster. Getting ahead of the Oct 10th rain seemed key to performing well in 2005, after what was a relatively mild summer. This is perhaps an apt advertisement for the benefits of blending vineyards together, four into one; a philosophy the Cantina holds dear. An Englishman’s Barolo? It's certainly sings of finesse. Drinking till 2020, along with lamb (Maria Teresa's favourite meat).
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£1,680.00
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
£875.00
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
£950.00
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£312.00
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Cantina Bartolo Mascarello,
Ready, but will keep,
Harvested on 1st October, twelve days earlier than in 2008 (and ten before 2010), Maria Teresa’s 2009 Barolo remains a classic, traditional blend of four vineyards: Barolo’s Rué, San Lorenzo and Cannubi and Rocche di Torriglione from the village of La Morra; whence her family originated. There’s less alcohol than the hot 2007, yet the wine faithfully records the hot summer: beautiful sunny red/pink colour, swimming with intense yet suave, discreet, composed, strawberry spice and sandalwood notes; there’s a typically gorgeous roll of fruit while remaining composed and yet open-hearted. Pure with a definite sweet spot. So fluid, so feminine; alive with delicate acidity. Full of light. Echoes of Graci’s Sicilian Etna Rosso (without the lava)?!
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£2,250.00
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Cantina Mascarello Bartolo remains one of the most revered Barolo wine-making domaines. Founded in 1918, its reputation was secured by the late great Bartolo Mascarello and since 2005 by his daughter Maria-Teresa Mascarello, whose first vintage was in 1993.
The 5 hectare domaine lies in the Barolo village on prime sandy calcareous clay Tortonian soils, with the vineyards of Cannubi, San Lorenzo, Rue, & Rocche del Annunziata (La Morra) at its heart. Only one Barolo wine is made, a blend of all the crus, along with some Dolcetto and Barbera.
The style remains staunchly traditional. Vinification takes place in fifty year old cement & wooden cuves, without recourse to yeast or temperature control. The Barolo is aged for approx. 3 years in 25 hl Slavonian botte (all recently replaced), followed by 1 year in bottle prior to release.
Maria-Teresa believes quite simply that the key to great wine is to produce the healthiest, ripest fruit possible. She would also describe herself as (bio) logic & (bio) dynamic! Berrys are fortunate to have a tiny share of the 1,250 cases Barolo produced annually.