Giuseppe Mascarello E Figlio Scudetto Barbera D'Alba
TASTING NOTES
Deep ruby red to purple colour. Fruit intense aromas of ripe grapes. Powerful and well balanced wine with excellent body.
approx. 18 °C
THE WINERY
The members of the Giuseppe Mascarello family have been growing wines for more than a century and a half, first as farmers running the Manescotto estate in the village of La Morra for the marchesa Giulia Colbert Faletti di Barolo, and then on their own property since the late 1800s. It was the vine-tender Giuseppe Mascarello who began the family business back in 1881, in the village of Monforte d’Alba, where he purchased a site in Regione Pian della Polvere. Mascarello Giuseppe e Figlio is a prestigious Barolo producer in Piemonte, northwest Italy. The company has been closely associated with the Monprivato vineyard, one of the so-called Barolo crus, since the 1920s, and the single vineyard Monprivato Barolo has become Giuseppe Mascarello's flagship wine since the 1920s.
VINEYARDS
The Monprivato vineyard's southwesterly aspect and limestone-rich soils has made it one of Barolo's most coveted properties, considered ideal for the Nebbiolo grape variety. In the 1980s, a clone of Nebbiolo called Michét was planted in a small part of the vineyard as an experiment which became the estate's highly regarded Monprivato Cà d'Morisso cuvee. This, alongside the regular Monprivato, is only made in outstanding vintages. The estate prefers traditional winemaking methods, with long fermentations and wines aged in large Slavonian oak casks known as botti. There is little intervention in the vineyard and grapes are harvested by hand.
VINIFICATION
Beginning of October.
Traditional-style, floating cap fermentation of estate-grown grapes for 15/20 days. The wine is then matured in medium-sized oak barrels for few months or sometimes stabilized in inert tank.
10/15 years
After three years following the vintage
FOOD PAIRING
White and red meats, pasta, fresh cheeses and cold bites
