2017 Mascarello Giuseppe e Figlio Barolo Monprivato
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Log inAn absolute CULT wine from Italy is the classic Barolo Monprivato from Guiseppe Mascarello. Not easy to find. Demand is greater than supply and so prices rise year after year. To drink or as an investment. Giuseppe Mascarello e Figlio is certainly considered one of the best producers of Barolo. The family business dates back to 1881 & to Monforte d'Alba. Maurizio (Morissio) bought the Castiglione Falletto Monprivato vineyard in 1904 and planted it with the Nebbiolo Michèt clone, before moving the winery to Monchiero in 1919. Son Giuseppe took over the business in 1923 and left the other family business of building materials to concentrate on wine. His son Mauro has been refining the estate since 1967, notably by reducing yields, introducing a sorting table to ensure perfect bunches, and marketing Monprivato as a single-vineyard wine since 1970. He has been joined by his son Giuseppe , a wine technician, since 1996. Mauro's wife Maria Teresa keeps the books. The Nebbiolo vineyard for the icon of Mascarello - the Barolo Monprivato, is located in the Grandcru area of Monprivato, in the municipality of Castiglione Falletto (CN). The harvest is around mid-October. The Nebbiolo grapes undergo a traditional fermentation of approx. 20/26 days. The wine is then aged for about 30 months in Slavonian oak barrels and the wine is always released at least four years after the harvest.
The Giuseppe Mascarello Barolo Monprivato is a beautiful wine that is bursting with energy, depth and electricity. This is a naturally very complex and complete wine. The wine has a beautiful garnet red with orange reflections. This Monprivato is fine and sensual with soft berry tones that turn into flowers, candied orange peel, fresh mint and forest floor and rust. The tannins and structure of the wine ensure enormous stamina. All bottles are numbered.
The 2017 vintage received 97/100 points from Falstaff and
Character
The wine
- 100%
Origin
Bottle
Wine features
Parker
Rating
98
Release Price
$200
Drink Date
2025 - 2050
Reviewed by
Monica Larner
Issue Date
21st Oct 2021
Source
October 2021 Week 3, The Wine Advocate
The Giuseppe Mascarello 2016 Barolo Monprivato is a beautiful wine that is teeming with energy, depth and electricity. This is a naturally very complex and complete wine, thanks to the extraordinary conditions of this epic growing season. The results are relatable and impactful, as fruit from 2016 shows power, grace and lots of clearly recognized varietal purity. This edition of Monprivato is fine and sensual with soft berry tones that cede to blue flower, candied orange peel, fresh mint and earthy rust. The wine's tannins and structure build momentum and staying power. This wine is large in scope and impressive (released with 15,000 bottles made).
Vaunting an impressive production history that started in 1881 and an exceptional set of traditionally crafted wines, the Mascarello family is Barolo royalty. This little spotlight focuses on new releases from Giuseppe Mascarello, including the estate’s 2013 Barolo Monprivato Riserva Cà d'Morissio, which should be hitting the market shortly.
The Giuseppe Mascarello brand is now run by Mauro Mascarello, his wife, Maria Teresa, and his children, Giuseppe and Elena. They farm Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Freisa. Their top-shelf expressions of Barolo come from Villero (in Castiglione Falletto), the Vigna Santo Stefano in Perno (Monforte d’Alba) and Monprivato in Castiglione Falletto. The historic cellars are in Monchiero.
On the occasion of the winery’s 140th birthday, I sat down with Elena Mascarello to ask her five questions.
1. How does your family divvy up responsibilities in the vineyard and at the winery?
My brother, Giuseppe, is charged with the technical aspects of winemaking. My mother Maria Teresa does a little bit of everything at the winery and she helps us manage all our daily tasks, she uses her experience to supervise various administrative issues and she oversees accounting. I am in charge of the business and commercial aspects, and I also work alongside my father to manage the vineyards and all the farming activities. My father, Mauro, is the head of our estate, and all the important decisions regarding wine production and vineyard management fall to him. He personally supervises all things related to the two wines he has dedicated his life to making: the Barolo Monprivato and the Barolo Monprivato Riserva Cà d'Morissio.
2. Your family is a living symbol of the great winemaking traditions of Barolo that have been handed down through generational lines. Could you give me a brief rundown of your production philosophy?
Our production philosophy is based on the firm belief that absolute quality is derived in the vineyard, and it is our commitment to make sure that the parcels we elect to farm are able to express whatever makes them special and excellent. We have many vintages under our belts, and that collective experience has contributed to shape a clear sense of identity in our wines.
As you mention, my family is a symbol of local winemaking tradition. This is due to—besides the long history we represent—the fact that we have always remained faithful to the wines made in our past. Wines that each generation of my family has learned to make from a previous generation, ensuring that we maintain stylistic consistency without ever falling to new trends, of which there have been many over the decades, pushed primarily by companies focused solely on their commercial goals.
At our winery, the winemaking workflow is very straightforward and basic. The techniques and style we embrace have been fine-tuned by my father over the years. His most important contribution is a steadfast focus on simplicity, with the aim of making wines that are truly reflective of our vineyards and that reveal, whenever possible, our stylistic personality.
3. Between Villero, Perno (Vigna Santo Stefano) and Monprivato you have an outstanding range of vineyard sites. Would you introduce us to the personality, or the spirit, of each?
Our parcel in Villero has clay and sandy soils and makes delicate but intense wines that are, generally speaking, more approachable earlier. [Grapes from this parcel] also tend to accumulate alcohol very quickly in the hot vintages, building fruit weight and intensity. Within the context of our portfolio, we consider our Barolo [Villero] to be feminine and persuasive.
The Vigna Santo Stefano in Perno has varied soil types with clay made of bluish marl, and it produces structured wines, rich in flavors and tannin. Among the wines in our portfolio, we consider it to be a more muscular and masculine wine.
Lastly, Monprivato represents balance, elegance and composure. It has thin soils that are whitish in color and rich with calcium carbonate. They allow Nebbiolo to express itself with heightened complexity, with enormous structural elegance and a persistent herbal balsamic characteristic on the finish. We share special affection for Monprivato—our most excellent vineyard—and we believe that its spirit is forever linked, from the very beginning, to the history of my family.
4. Can you tell me more about your Cà d’Morissio project from Monprivato? What was this Barolo Riserva’s first vintage and in what years was it made?
It was first produced in1993 and made in these vintages: 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013, which is hitting the market shortly.
My father conceived of and wanted to make this wine with the aim of giving emphasis to the best characteristics of Nebbiolo from Monprivato: structural balance, elegance, silkiness, length and the potential for a long life and evolution in bottle. It’s an ambitious project, seen as almost extravagant in the 1980s, and we obviously took care to work hard in the vineyard, or the birthplace of the wine, with a selection of the best vines of the Nebbiolo variety that is suited to this place. This is the Michèt clone of Nebbiolo that is planted in a specific parcel of Monprivato and from which we harvest grapes for the Riserva Cà d’Morissio, but only in the vintages that we believe live up to the convincing characteristics that meet the aspirations of the project as we envisaged it.
5. There has been a lot of focus on climate change in recent years. What are your thoughts on the topic from your vantage point as a Barolo producer?
I think it’s hard to assess the situation at this point from a theoretical point of view based on things that may happen in the future, especially because we still are not fully in possession of all the material facts. There is no real answer. Like everyone else, we face the challenges of each new growing season year after year, with hopes of finding the right set of answers and the best strategies matched to the conditions we observe and those we experience. In the future, we hope to meet the challenges that climate change is throwing at us winegrowers.
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Though firm, this has a beam of cherry, raspberry, floral and mineral aromas and flavors. Linear, elegant and balanced, but will need more time to fully open and reveal all the facets. Fine ripeness, freshness and vibrant fruit on the long finish. Best from 2025 through 2043. 1,659 cases made.
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97/100 Falstaff
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Giuseppe Mascarello winery is located in the town of Castiglione Falletto, a little below Turin in the north of Italy. Since time immemorial, the Nebbiolo grape has been the most appreciated vine and the icon of Alba and Langa, and when the grape also grows in a great terroir, it cannot be otherwise that very beautiful wines with a remarkable personality, an intense bouquet and great smooth tannins. The members of the Giuseppe Mascarello family have been growing wine for more than a century and a half, first as farmers running the Manescotto estate in the village of La Morra, and then on their own property since the late 1800s.
The Mascarello family estate extends over 15 hectares of vineyards, all located in the Barolo wine-growing region. Some, like the Monprivato vineyard, can now be considered part of family history, while some other vineyards were added to family ownership later.
Wijnhuis Giuseppe Mascarello owes its success to the passionate and powerful method they have been using for years. They strictly adhere to their own developed rules regarding manual harvesting and sorting, pruning and limited production per hectare. Their ongoing pursuit of even further quality improvement is a plus of this beautiful winery. For example, in 1994 a project was started with the technical contribution of winemaker Donato Lanati to study and develop a digester specific to the Nebbiolo grapes used to make Barolo wine. This digester should be able to achieve maximum extraction with the utmost softness. This project led to the construction of a prototype digester - a completely new machine in terms of construction technique and results - that faithfully reproduces and automatically controls the long-term traditional fermentation. This prototype has obtained an "Industrial Invention Patent" from the Italian Ministry of Industry, Trade and Agriculture and the 4 models built have delivered excellent results.
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Deze 2017 Barolo Monprivato toont een zuiver profiel van rijpe kersen en framboos, viooltjes en rozen, met gekonfijte sinaasappelschil, frisse munt, aardse tonen en stevige, zijdezachte tannines die samen voor een lange, minerale afdronk zorgen. Door de frisse zuurgraad en sturende tannines snijdt de wijn uitstekend door de vetheid en rijke sauzen van rundvlees, de smaakvolle kruiden van lamsvlees, de geconcentreerde smaken van stoofschotels en de zoutige, umami-rijke tonen van gerijpte kazen. Kies bij rund voor langzaam gegaarde entrecote of cote de boeuf met kruidboter of een Barolo-reductiesaus, bij lam voor geroosterd lamsrack met rozemarijn of gestoofde lamsschouder, en bij kaas voor oude Pecorino of Parmigiano Reggiano om de complexiteit van de wijn maximaal te laten schitteren.
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