Giuseppe Mascarello e Figlio Villero Barolo DOCG, Piedmont, Italy

朱塞佩·馬斯卡雷略酒莊維雷洛園巴羅洛紅葡萄酒

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Coming to market one year later than its peers, the Giuseppe Mascarello 2018 Barolo Villero delivers warm sensations with autumnal aromas of chestnut, peat moss, dark fruit and wild mushroom. The wine is consistently fine and silky in terms of texture, yet this vintage delivers an open-knit approach and soft tannins that give it a more immediate drinking window.

The 2017 Barolo Villero is visibly darker with opulent fruit, blackberry confit, potting soil and licorice. The wine is layered and bold, but it also shows a soft side with sweet fruit that spreads evenly over the palate. The 2017 vintage is similar to 2015, both are considered hot and dry growing seasons, delivering ripeness and textural weight. The main difference would be that 2015 had more structure, and 2017 has more plush layering.

Always on the more immediate side of the Mascarello family Barolo spectrum, the 2016 Barolo Villero is really quite spectacular. This wine is coming together with impressive intensity and seamless integration, showing equal parts fruit, spice and earthy notes of crushed stone. Those fruit tones are especially rich and generous with cherry liqueur, wild plum and pressed rose petal. The wine offers a level of thrilling exuberance and depth that sums up the 2016 vintage in a nutshell. Villero is one of my favorite sites in Castiglione Falletto.

Compared to Giuseppe Mascarello's Barolo from Perno that is more accessible and primary, the 2015 Barolo Villero shows us a more austere, focused and disciplined side of the Nebbiolo grape. The bouquet is redolent of forest berry, tobacco, licorice and rusted iron ore. It shows delineated sharpness and focus that continues from the nose to the palate. Elegant tannins, more mineral nuances and nicely balanced acidity give Villero important cellar-worthy qualities. Wait at least 10 years after the harvest before opening this bottle.

Across the board, the Giuseppe Mascarello estate produced 40% less Barolo in 2014 due to the difficulties of the vintage. The 2014 Barolo Villero was also hit by lower production numbers making the wine more difficult to locate at your local merchant. However, this expression from Castiglione Falletto's famed Villero site is worth seeking out because those lower yields resulted in careful and impressive workmanship. This wine is the most open and expressive of the three single-vineyard Baroli, and it is also the most rich. There is an almost meaty or fat quality to the fruit that cedes elegantly to exotic fruit, spice and crushed mineral. This vintage stands out as different, but it certainly holds it own.