{"product_id":"giuseppe-mascarello-barolo-monprivato-1995-1-5l","title":"Giuseppe Mascarello, Barolo Monprivato, 1995 (1.5L)","description":"A 1995 Monprivato in magnum, and the fact that it exists at all tells you something: the Mascarellos bottle this cru under its own numbered label only in vintages they judge exceptional or excellent. Lesser years go into the regular Barolo or into Langhe Nebbiolo. Monprivato is a six-hectare sorì (a south-facing hillside) in Castiglione Falletto, in the centre of the Barolo zone. It sits mid-slope at 280 metres, faces south-west and grows on clayey-silty Miocene marl rich in active limestone. It has been on the land registry as a vineyard since 1666, and in 1985 Renato Ratti, the Langhe's great historian, named it one of Barolo's eleven first-category historic sites. Maurizio Mascarello bought in here in 1904 and first planted the Michét strain of Nebbiolo in 1921. Today the family owns nearly all of the vineyard (a small parcel low on the hill belongs to Giovanni Sordo, so it's not quite a monopole). This vintage came just after the family began setting aside a separate Michét Riserva, Cà d'Morissio, first released with the 1993. The house has never gone in for new French oak and still ages in the Slavonian casks Giuseppe Mascarello bought in the late 1950s, so if you want Barolo made the old way from one of its most storied hillsides, in the slow-ageing magnum format, this is the real thing.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525010624569,"sku":"NYC-[CNSN]-TTSUMMER0826-092226-279-32","price":699.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Giuseppe-Mascarello-Barolo-Monprivato-1995-1_5L-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1790154990","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/giuseppe-mascarello-barolo-monprivato-1995-1-5l","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}