Giuseppe Mascarello E Figlio Santo Stefano Di Perno Barolo
TASTING NOTES
Pomegranate red with light orange accents. Complex, very fruity, elegant and intense aromas. Excellent body, powerful and tight, well balanced.
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
Towards the middle of October.
Estate-grown bunches, thinned during the summer, undergo traditional-style, floating cap fermentation for 15/20 days. The wine is then matured in medium-sized Slavonian oak barrels for around 30 months.
10/25 years
After four years following the vintage
FOOD PAIRING
Game, red meats, matured cheese
