There is probably no other type of dry wine which achieves almost always reviews of 90+ points than Barolo. This is probably due to the combination of aromatics and tannin structure which can hardly go wrong. Yesterday I tasted the 2013 Azelia Margheria Barolo. The Margheria vineyard is in Serralunga. A number of leading producers source wine from here, including Gaja. Massolino's Vigna Rionda is just below the sizable Azelia holding. This is a vintage in which many great wines were made. Let us see how it went.
Discovering the colour of the wine, I got a bit alarmed. This was not the frequent orange, nor the darker red of Serralunga, but a brown colour. I could still taste the intensity of the fruit, but it was ripe, dried off, and simply dead. There were tobacco and licorice flavours, which helped a bit. The wine was slightly lifted by the firm tannins, which were still alive. Overall, a very disappointing experience. Was this a bottle problem? The cork was fine. Unfortunately, I do not have a second bottle to compare. Azelia does not rank in the list of top producers and is priced accordingly. However, this wine is best avoided.
Score: 84/--
2 comments:
Zamantan
Woops! Was going to say in my experience I think you can't deny that producer trumps vineyard on a erage. Exceptions ofc but it's just happened to me so often now particularly in Europe where these Classifications are more established.
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