2017 Bartolo Mascarello Barolo Magnum

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Type of Wine | Red |
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Country | Italy |
Region | |
Appellation | |
Winery | Bartolo Mascarello |
Vintage | 2017 |
Grape | |
Content (Alc) | 1.5 ltr (14.5%) |
Drink window | 2025 - 2050 |
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Description
Bartolo Mascarello is a legendary winery in Barolo, Piedmont, known for its dedication to traditional winemaking methods. Founded in the 1920s by Bartolo's father, Giulio Mascarello, it has become a symbol of elegance, authenticity and craftsmanship in the world of Barolo wines. Bartolo Mascarello stands for craftsmanship and purity. They avoid modernist techniques such as new French oak barriques or micro-oxygenation. Instead, they use large Slavonian oak barrels (botti grandi) for longer aging, which creates delicate tannins and layered complexity. The winery produces a limited amount of wine of around 25,000 bottles annually, making its wines rare and sought-after.
The grapes come from prestigious cru vineyards such as Cannubi, San Lorenzo, Rue and Rocche dell'Annunziata. The grapes are all vinified as a blend, which emphasizes balance and harmony rather than individual cru expressions.
The Bartolo Mascarello Barolo 2017 has a light ruby red sheen from the glass and proves once again that elegance is possible – as long as the right hands are at work. In this case, those are the hands of Maria Teresa Mascarello, the legendary daughter of Bartolo.
This renowned 2017 Barolo shines with its silky texture and shiny character, which permeates both the nose and the mouthfeel. On the nose, a refined palette of wild cherry, lilac, iron ore and candied orange peel gradually unfolds. The wine needs some time to fully open up, after which all these delicate details become visible.
Acidity plays a key role in this graceful Barolo: it binds the fruit, enhances the tension in the wine and contributes a lively freshness. This is a collector’s item – a wine to carefully store in your cellar for decades to come.
Specifications
Type of Wine | Red |
---|---|
Country | Italy |
Region | Piemonte |
Appellation | Barolo |
Icons | Icon Italy |
Winery | Bartolo Mascarello |
Grape | Nebbiolo |
Biological certified | No |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2017 |
Drinking as of | 2025 |
Drinking till | 2050 |
Alcohol % | 14.5 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 1.5 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 100 |
Vinous rating | 94 |
Tasting Profiles | Aards, Boers, Complex, Donker fruit, Droog, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Kruidig |
Drink moments | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Open haard |
Professional Reviews
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 100
Reviewed by:
Monica Larner
Release Price:
$160
Drink Date:
2026 - 2060
This is the stuff of dreams. Tasted so young, I did a lot of coaxing to nudge the wine along, thanks to a double decant and a few extra hours in an open bottle. I tasted both samples I had over the course of a few weeks. Those efforts served well, but the wine remains packed tight and full of nervous energy regardless, indicating that its true potential won't be seen for another 10 or 20 years, or likely more. The Bartolo Mascarello 2016 Barolo is a true icon of the vintage. The approach is elongated and silky, like lifting honey from a jar. The aromas are chiseled and focused with wild berry, licorice, candied orange peel, campfire ash, rusted iron, crushed graphite and pencil shaving. The wine's personality is downplayed, elegant and demure in one tasting but exuberant and expressive in the next. The tannins show snap and crunch, indicating they will drive the wine forward over many years of cellar age. This is one of those rare wines that is poised to improve with each increment of time. Structurally, it is perfect. If we were to create a template for an aspirational Barolo, this would be it.
The indomitable Maria Teresa Mascarello has finished building a new facility in the lower part of Barolo village, just a few hundred meters from her existing historic winery. The new space allows for greater temperature and humidity control for storage, and means that much of the vineyard equipment can be consolidated under one roof. Those who have visited this estate know how tiny the workspaces are in the village. However, fermentation and aging will continue in the historic cantina, and visitors will be welcomed to the same homey offices packed with books and paintings on Via Roma. Nothing will change in terms of winemaking, but more space is now available for storage, bottle aging, packing and shipping. As readers know, the Bartolo Mascarello Barolo is a blend of fruit from Cannubi, Rué and Monrobiolo della Bussia (in Barolo) and Rocche dell'Annunziata (in La Morra). These parcels are co-fermented.
Published: Jul 23, 2020
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Vinous
94
Drinking Window
2025 - 2042
From: 2017 Barolo: Here We Go Again… (Feb 2021)
The 2017 Barolo is gracious, perfumed and very nicely lifted. An effusive, floral bouquet opens first, followed by a rush of red berry fruit. Nervous, a bit wiry at this stage, the 2017 is going to need at least a few years to fully open, but all the elements are in place to allow that to happen. Maria Teresa Mascarello's Barolo is one of the most elegant and restrained wines of the year. It's not an immediately impressive or captivating wine at this stage. The purity of the flavors is just striking, though. Give it a few years to blossom.
- By Antonio Galloni on January 2021
Maria Teresa Mascarello's 2017 Barolo is a typical wine for the year. Classically mid-weight in structure, the 2017 is all finesse and class, but it is also decidedly laid back. In fact, alcohol is 0.5% lower in 2017 than 2016. Mascarello gave her wine three weeks on the skins, with no extended fermentation.
"It was a very challenging year," Mascarello relayed. "There was some heat stress in the vines. We had a bit of rain in early September, just as we brought in the last Dolcetto. It was the first rain we had seen in 3-4 months. The soils literally looked like powder as the rain fell. Temperatures started to drop right after that. Harvest was almost a month earlier than 2016 and quite condensed. We picked everything in about 23 days as opposed to the more typical 4-5 weeks."
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Bartolo Mascarello is a legendary winery in Barolo, Piedmont, known for its dedication to traditional winemaking methods. Founded in the 1920s by Bartolo's father, Giulio Mascarello, it has become a symbol of elegance, authenticity and craftsmanship in the world of Barolo wines. Bartolo Mascarello stands for craftsmanship and purity. They avoid modernist techniques such as new French oak barriques or micro-oxygenation. Instead, they use large Slavonian oak barrels (botti grandi) for longer aging, which creates delicate tannins and layered complexity. The winery produces a limited amount of wine of around 25,000 bottles annually, making its wines rare and sought-after.
The grapes come from prestigious cru vineyards such as Cannubi, San Lorenzo, Rue and Rocche dell'Annunziata. The grapes are all vinified as a blend, which emphasizes balance and harmony rather than individual cru expressions.
The Bartolo Mascarello Barolo 2017 has a light ruby red sheen from the glass and proves once again that elegance is possible – as long as the right hands are at work. In this case, those are the hands of Maria Teresa Mascarello, the legendary daughter of Bartolo.
This renowned 2017 Barolo shines with its silky texture and shiny character, which permeates both the nose and the mouthfeel. On the nose, a refined palette of wild cherry, lilac, iron ore and candied orange peel gradually unfolds. The wine needs some time to fully open up, after which all these delicate details become visible.
Acidity plays a key role in this graceful Barolo: it binds the fruit, enhances the tension in the wine and contributes a lively freshness. This is a collector’s item – a wine to carefully store in your cellar for decades to come.
Type of Wine | Red |
---|---|
Country | Italy |
Region | Piemonte |
Appellation | Barolo |
Icons | Icon Italy |
Winery | Bartolo Mascarello |
Grape | Nebbiolo |
Biological certified | No |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2017 |
Drinking as of | 2025 |
Drinking till | 2050 |
Alcohol % | 14.5 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 1.5 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 100 |
Vinous rating | 94 |
Tasting Profiles | Aards, Boers, Complex, Donker fruit, Droog, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Kruidig |
Drink moments | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Open haard |
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 100
Reviewed by:
Monica Larner
Release Price:
$160
Drink Date:
2026 - 2060
This is the stuff of dreams. Tasted so young, I did a lot of coaxing to nudge the wine along, thanks to a double decant and a few extra hours in an open bottle. I tasted both samples I had over the course of a few weeks. Those efforts served well, but the wine remains packed tight and full of nervous energy regardless, indicating that its true potential won't be seen for another 10 or 20 years, or likely more. The Bartolo Mascarello 2016 Barolo is a true icon of the vintage. The approach is elongated and silky, like lifting honey from a jar. The aromas are chiseled and focused with wild berry, licorice, candied orange peel, campfire ash, rusted iron, crushed graphite and pencil shaving. The wine's personality is downplayed, elegant and demure in one tasting but exuberant and expressive in the next. The tannins show snap and crunch, indicating they will drive the wine forward over many years of cellar age. This is one of those rare wines that is poised to improve with each increment of time. Structurally, it is perfect. If we were to create a template for an aspirational Barolo, this would be it.
The indomitable Maria Teresa Mascarello has finished building a new facility in the lower part of Barolo village, just a few hundred meters from her existing historic winery. The new space allows for greater temperature and humidity control for storage, and means that much of the vineyard equipment can be consolidated under one roof. Those who have visited this estate know how tiny the workspaces are in the village. However, fermentation and aging will continue in the historic cantina, and visitors will be welcomed to the same homey offices packed with books and paintings on Via Roma. Nothing will change in terms of winemaking, but more space is now available for storage, bottle aging, packing and shipping. As readers know, the Bartolo Mascarello Barolo is a blend of fruit from Cannubi, Rué and Monrobiolo della Bussia (in Barolo) and Rocche dell'Annunziata (in La Morra). These parcels are co-fermented.
Published: Jul 23, 2020
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
Vinous
94
Drinking Window
2025 - 2042
From: 2017 Barolo: Here We Go Again… (Feb 2021)
The 2017 Barolo is gracious, perfumed and very nicely lifted. An effusive, floral bouquet opens first, followed by a rush of red berry fruit. Nervous, a bit wiry at this stage, the 2017 is going to need at least a few years to fully open, but all the elements are in place to allow that to happen. Maria Teresa Mascarello's Barolo is one of the most elegant and restrained wines of the year. It's not an immediately impressive or captivating wine at this stage. The purity of the flavors is just striking, though. Give it a few years to blossom.
- By Antonio Galloni on January 2021
Maria Teresa Mascarello's 2017 Barolo is a typical wine for the year. Classically mid-weight in structure, the 2017 is all finesse and class, but it is also decidedly laid back. In fact, alcohol is 0.5% lower in 2017 than 2016. Mascarello gave her wine three weeks on the skins, with no extended fermentation.
"It was a very challenging year," Mascarello relayed. "There was some heat stress in the vines. We had a bit of rain in early September, just as we brought in the last Dolcetto. It was the first rain we had seen in 3-4 months. The soils literally looked like powder as the rain fell. Temperatures started to drop right after that. Harvest was almost a month earlier than 2016 and quite condensed. We picked everything in about 23 days as opposed to the more typical 4-5 weeks."
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
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