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Bartolo Mascarello, Barolo, 2011

Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy
by Bartolo Mascarello
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“No Barrique, No Berlusconi”—Bartolo Mascarello’s hand-painted protest labels became symbols of a man who refused to bend Barolo to fashion. While modernists embraced French oak barriques and single-vineyard bottlings, Mascarello insisted on traditional 2,500-liter Slavonian oak botti and multi-cru blending from parcels including Canubbi and Rocche di La Morra, believing that diverse vineyard sites create the most complete wine. His daughter Maria Teresa continues this philosophy without compromise. The 2011 vintage—warm with a scorching August followed by late September rains—produced wines of fresh red fruit, sweet tannins, and transparent terroir expression. Thirty to fifty days of maceration without temperature control, three years in large botti, then a year in bottle before release. Traditional Barolo in its purest, most uncompromising form.

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Antonio Galloni

94 points

"The 2011 Barolo from Bartolo Mascarello is such a surprise. Bright, translucent red, the 2011 immediately impresses with its captivating freshness and precision. There’s so much vibrancy. Given the warm, dry year, I was expecting to see a Barolo with some early signs of maturity, but the 2011 is incredibly young, not to mention an absolute delight. Time in the glass does start to reveal a bit less polish in the tannins relative to the very finest vintages, but that is expected in a very challenging vintage. This is a terrific showing." —Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

94 points

"The 2011 Barolo is a very expressive wine with more determination and muscle than you usually get in the wines of Bartolo Mascarello. The bouquet opens to plush flavors of red fruit and cherry with grilled herb, tobacco and mineral delineation. Its structure is yielding and round and the finish is ripe with soft fruit flavors. Make no mistake, it doles out complexity and an ethereal sense of balsam herb, cola and licorice that is the hallmark of this historic estate with a tiny garage winery in the town of Barolo. The alcohol reading here is 14.5% compared to 14% in the 2010 vintage." —Monica Larner

Decanter

93 points

"Perhaps the most refined 2011 Barolo precise, mineral, complex and, atypically for the vintage, still closed."

Wine Spectator

93 points

"A delicate, aromatic style, with floral, sandalwood, cherry, tea and spice flavors. Beautifully balanced and long, with a firm underlying structure."

Kerin O'Keefe

94 points

"Woodland berry, tilled soil, cake spices and a whiff of game are some of the aromas you'll find on this fragrant, impressive wine. The full-bodied, elegant palate delivers juicy red cherry, black raspberry, clove, chopped herbs and a hint of cured meat alongside a backbone of firm, refined tannins and bright acidity." —Kerin O'Keefe

More about Bartolo Mascarello

Bartolo made a name for himself resisting the modernizing trends in the region, encapsulated by a message he put on a hand-drawn bottle label: “No Barriques, No Berlusconi”. He died a few years ago but the domain is now in the gifted hands of his daughter Maria Theresa, who has raised the profile even further with a series of fabulous vintages. Still hewing rigorously to tradition (long macerations, and no barriques!), they are one of the very few domains to still release just one Barolo made from a blend of all their parcels (as was generally the case before single vineyard cuvees started to appear in the 1960s). 30% of the Barolo comes from Rocche di Annunziata in La Morra; the rest from three different vineyards in the commune of Barolo: Rue, San Lorenzo and Cannubi.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    2011

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Style

    Aromatic , Elegant , Rich

  • Sweetness

    Dry

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Grilled steak, roasted lamb, wild mushrooms, Parmigiano-Reggiano

Tasting Profile

Barolo with ripe cherry, plum, spice, and mineral backbone. Full-bodied with structured tannins. Classic vintage expression.

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