During a Pinot blind tasting dinner. Somebody smuggled this pirate in. It was late in the day and not everyone spotted it. What was conspicuous of this wine was its Maggi beef stock top note, pointing towards early oxidation. I had this issue with this wine before.
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Opened for a very special occasion. It needed at least two hours of decanting to start opening up. A relatively reserved style, meaning it’s not overly ripe at all. Lots of layers of flavors, quite structured. Has still a long life ahead. Wish I had more than one bottle left!
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A Barolo full of gravitas, depth, overwhelming poise and allure. This drinks wonderfully today, showing a sweetish side but at the same time myriads of complex shades. Macerated cherries, fig, coffee bean, withered flowers, oriental spices, gentian, menthol and blood orange are some of many flavors lingering. A drop-dead gorgeous Barolo - my constant verdict every time I have the privilege to taste this 2010. Big potential for years to come.
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During a Barolo/Piedmont tasting lunch, not blind. Very concentrated and too ripe for me, extracted, drying tannins on the finish. Found some friends at the table but too pushed for my palate. 88-94 depending on how you can handle this style.
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Superb complexity, ripe but in a perfect place, notes of tobacco leaf, plum, red cherries, graphite, tar, orange zest, violets, some cedar wood, figs. Full-bodied and dense, but with excellent elegance, high acidity and medium-high tannin that is excellent quality. Great length. A super complete, excellent Barolo of the very highest level. This will probably also age nicely for another 10–15 years. Superb.
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Tasted blind. Not decanted. Leather and wet earth, ripe and aged fruit of fig, but with elements of fresher red berry. A structured wine that comes across as awfully young with drying tannin and good acidity but at the same time feels very mature with some beef juice notes that just wouldn’t dissipate, even if with some aeration the fruit became did shine a bit more.
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- Nose: Somewhat closed despite 2.5h, stony appeal, ripe fruit of sultanas, herbs, peppers and dried fruit (wild cherries). Lots of wood and white chocolate, white pepper. - Palate: nice good flow, medium + ripe tannins and indeed some ripe fruit and for me a bit much wood influence (over five years in big oak barrels) for a traditional style. Wonderful length and everything is right. But it has a lot of potential to develop further. The wine offers a lot of depth and the Riserva always shows a new side. Should be decanted for at least four hours or even better put aside for at least 5-10 years. - 93 points with potential to 95 points.
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From almost 100 years old wines in this small top-notch Cru. Traditional wine-making, with long maceration, large cask (for 5 years) and bottle-aging for 5 years. Beautiful shiny ruby color with a touch of bricking towards the rim. This is super elegant, full of finesse, has layer over layer of complexity and aromatics and is building up in the glass with excellent mid-palate persistence and depth. There are notes of red cherries, plums, smoke, tobacco leaf, cedar wood, tar, roses and violets, also some figs, darker fruit, constantly changing in the glass, bitter almond, christmas spices, just overall very complex. It‘s medium-full bodied, with excellent depth but without being heavy at all, it has high acidity adding beautiful tension and cut, and also some medium-high tannin that is exceptionally silky. Super long finish with beautiful balance and complexity. This is a spectacular Barolo of the highest level, probably has still many years ahead but it‘s no crime to crack one open now and follow it unfurl over a day or two.
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Enjoyed over 2 days, not decanted. Expressive nose. Very energetic and fresh on day one, with more aged barolo notes 24 hours later. Typical mid-weight body of a great traditional Barolo with a pure aromas and balanced on the palate with less primary fruit and more earthy, balsamic focus.
This is one of those wines you want to spend time with. Ever changing and showing new nuances, this is an emotional striking wine like the best barolos out there. As great as it is now, it has a long life ahead.
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After a tasting of 2017s, the 2010 Riserva was clearly a very different wine. I found the aromatics more closed off, with only some red fruit tones and earth poking out. On the palate, I found a rich texture with high acidity and similar red fruit, earth notes and spices. This struck me as lacking vibrancy for a 2010 Barolo. Bottle was PnP. Judgment reserved as I've enjoyed the non-Riserva Azelia 2010 wines and the 2017s were very nice. I'd like to try another bottle when this is available in the U.S.
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2010, Barolo Bricco Voghera Riserva, Azienda Agricola AZELIA di Luigi Scavino, Castiglione Falletto, Piemont, Italien (100% Nebbiolo von Lehm- und Kalkböden, südliche Ausrichtung auf 360 M.ü.M. 55 bis 60 Tage Mazeration bei 31°, Ausbau während 5 Jahren in grossen Holzfässern, danach Reifung während 5 weiteren Jahren auf der Flasche. 14.5% Alkohol, 6.3g/l Säure, 33.6g/l Trockenextrakt). Reife Nase, sehr tiefgründig, dezent rauchig, eingekochte Kirschen, Pflaumen, darüber florale Noten, etwas Crème Brulée. Im Gaumen warm, zugänglich, feinwürzig, zeigt erste Reifenoten, dabei aber auch eine erstaunliche Frische, wirkt sehr lebendig und balanciert, baut enorm Druck auf, wird immer opulenter und hat dennoch viel Finesse. Endet im Abgang langanhaltend auf reife Kirschen und Süssholzaromen. 95/100 vvPunkte. vvWine.ch
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Only around 3k bottles are made here in selected vintages (so far: 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009). It’s released after a total aging of 10 years (5 years in cask, 5 years in bottle). Azelia is almost the monopole proprietor in Bricco Voghera and owns the most beautiful vineyard (0,85ha, southern exposition) right on the top of the hill of Brea. The vines have an age of appr. 90-95 years. This brings so much gravitas, depth, inner sweetness and complexity to the wine. It starts with the nose which has an immense fragrance: fresh & dried berries, fig, potpourri and christmas spices are some of the many flavors you can find. On the palate I found a perfectly balanced harmony, roundness and the evident high structure and potency of the 2010 vintage. What a combination! To capture the bouquet and the given expression of the 2010, one needs time. However, it is that wine that makes you take all the time of the world and kind of forget what’s happening around you. The myriads of flavors and layers show macerated strawberries & cherries, potpourri, pressed blue/purple flowers, figs, bitter orange, lavender, some botanical herbs, cedar, mentholated dark chocolate and oriental spices. An explosion of the beauty that Nebbiolo can show and deliver in its most beautiful shape. Weightless and incredibly profound. What a wine. This belongs in my cellar and is to me certainly one of the single very best Barolos I can name these days (The 2009 made me already think so, the 2010 confirmed it now fully).
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2/5/2024 - Slaz wrote: flawed
Compromised, nothing like my last tasting from a year ago.
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4/30/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 91 Points
During a Pinot blind tasting dinner. Somebody smuggled this pirate in. It was late in the day and not everyone spotted it. What was conspicuous of this wine was its Maggi beef stock top note, pointing towards early oxidation. I had this issue with this wine before.
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3/8/2023 - Slaz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Opened for a very special occasion. It needed at least two hours of decanting to start opening up. A relatively reserved style, meaning it’s not overly ripe at all. Lots of layers of flavors, quite structured. Has still a long life ahead. Wish I had more than one bottle left!
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1/13/2023 - wineswithmuscles Likes this wine:
A Barolo full of gravitas, depth, overwhelming poise and allure. This drinks wonderfully today, showing a sweetish side but at the same time myriads of complex shades. Macerated cherries, fig, coffee bean, withered flowers, oriental spices, gentian, menthol and blood orange are some of many flavors lingering. A drop-dead gorgeous Barolo - my constant verdict every time I have the privilege to taste this 2010. Big potential for years to come.
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10/21/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 91 Points
During a Barolo/Piedmont tasting lunch, not blind. Very concentrated and too ripe for me, extracted, drying tannins on the finish. Found some friends at the table but too pushed for my palate. 88-94 depending on how you can handle this style.
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10/15/2022 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 98 Points
Superb complexity, ripe but in a perfect place, notes of tobacco leaf, plum, red cherries, graphite, tar, orange zest, violets, some cedar wood, figs. Full-bodied and dense, but with excellent elegance, high acidity and medium-high tannin that is excellent quality. Great length. A super complete, excellent Barolo of the very highest level. This will probably also age nicely for another 10–15 years. Superb.
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6/19/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: flawed
Blind tasting lunch. Unfortunately with an oxidative streak, so not possible to rate.
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6/18/2022 - NostraBacchus wrote: flawed
Unfurtunately oxidized bottle. Already the color gave away that there was something wrong.
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6/18/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 88 Points
Tasted blind. Not decanted. Leather and wet earth, ripe and aged fruit of fig, but with elements of fresher red berry. A structured wine that comes across as awfully young with drying tannin and good acidity but at the same time feels very mature with some beef juice notes that just wouldn’t dissipate, even if with some aeration the fruit became did shine a bit more.
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2/4/2022 - J_H Likes this wine: 94 Points
- Nose: Somewhat closed despite 2.5h, stony appeal, ripe fruit of sultanas, herbs, peppers and dried fruit (wild cherries). Lots of wood and white chocolate, white pepper.
- Palate: nice good flow, medium + ripe tannins and indeed some ripe fruit and for me a bit much wood influence (over five years in big oak barrels) for a traditional style. Wonderful length and everything is right. But it has a lot of potential to develop further. The wine offers a lot of depth and the Riserva always shows a new side. Should be decanted for at least four hours or even better put aside for at least 5-10 years.
- 93 points with potential to 95 points.
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1/22/2022 - ubercuvee wrote:
I thought this was very tight and structured but I'm not sure there's enough fruit for it ever to fully find balance
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1/7/2022 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 97 Points
From almost 100 years old wines in this small top-notch Cru. Traditional wine-making, with long maceration, large cask (for 5 years) and bottle-aging for 5 years. Beautiful shiny ruby color with a touch of bricking towards the rim. This is super elegant, full of finesse, has layer over layer of complexity and aromatics and is building up in the glass with excellent mid-palate persistence and depth. There are notes of red cherries, plums, smoke, tobacco leaf, cedar wood, tar, roses and violets, also some figs, darker fruit, constantly changing in the glass, bitter almond, christmas spices, just overall very complex. It‘s medium-full bodied, with excellent depth but without being heavy at all, it has high acidity adding beautiful tension and cut, and also some medium-high tannin that is exceptionally silky. Super long finish with beautiful balance and complexity.
This is a spectacular Barolo of the highest level, probably has still many years ahead but it‘s no crime to crack one open now and follow it unfurl over a day or two.
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12/27/2021 - Haze78 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Enjoyed over 2 days, not decanted. Expressive nose. Very energetic and fresh on day one, with more aged barolo notes 24 hours later. Typical mid-weight body of a great traditional Barolo with a pure aromas and balanced on the palate with less primary fruit and more earthy, balsamic focus.
This is one of those wines you want to spend time with. Ever changing and showing new nuances, this is an emotional striking wine like the best barolos out there. As great as it is now, it has a long life ahead.
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12/2/2021 - Robmcl920 wrote:
After a tasting of 2017s, the 2010 Riserva was clearly a very different wine. I found the aromatics more closed off, with only some red fruit tones and earth poking out. On the palate, I found a rich texture with high acidity and similar red fruit, earth notes and spices. This struck me as lacking vibrancy for a 2010 Barolo. Bottle was PnP. Judgment reserved as I've enjoyed the non-Riserva Azelia 2010 wines and the 2017s were very nice. I'd like to try another bottle when this is available in the U.S.
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10/22/2021 - 2billrea Likes this wine: 99 Points
Drank at winery
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9/8/2021 - vvWine.ch Likes this wine: 95 Points
2010, Barolo Bricco Voghera Riserva, Azienda Agricola AZELIA di Luigi Scavino, Castiglione Falletto, Piemont, Italien (100% Nebbiolo von Lehm- und Kalkböden, südliche Ausrichtung auf 360 M.ü.M. 55 bis 60 Tage Mazeration bei 31°, Ausbau während 5 Jahren in grossen Holzfässern, danach Reifung während 5 weiteren Jahren auf der Flasche. 14.5% Alkohol, 6.3g/l Säure, 33.6g/l Trockenextrakt). Reife Nase, sehr tiefgründig, dezent rauchig, eingekochte Kirschen, Pflaumen, darüber florale Noten, etwas Crème Brulée. Im Gaumen warm, zugänglich, feinwürzig, zeigt erste Reifenoten, dabei aber auch eine erstaunliche Frische, wirkt sehr lebendig und balanciert, baut enorm Druck auf, wird immer opulenter und hat dennoch viel Finesse. Endet im Abgang langanhaltend auf reife Kirschen und Süssholzaromen. 95/100 vvPunkte. vvWine.ch
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5/15/2021 - wineswithmuscles Likes this wine:
Only around 3k bottles are made here in selected vintages (so far: 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009). It’s released after a total aging of 10 years (5 years in cask, 5 years in bottle). Azelia is almost the monopole proprietor in Bricco Voghera and owns the most beautiful vineyard (0,85ha, southern exposition) right on the top of the hill of Brea. The vines have an age of appr. 90-95 years. This brings so much gravitas, depth, inner sweetness and complexity to the wine. It starts with the nose which has an immense fragrance: fresh & dried berries, fig, potpourri and christmas spices are some of the many flavors you can find. On the palate I found a perfectly balanced harmony, roundness and the evident high structure and potency of the 2010 vintage. What a combination! To capture the bouquet and the given expression of the 2010, one needs time. However, it is that wine that makes you take all the time of the world and kind of forget what’s happening around you. The myriads of flavors and layers show macerated strawberries & cherries, potpourri, pressed blue/purple flowers, figs, bitter orange, lavender, some botanical herbs, cedar, mentholated dark chocolate and oriental spices. An explosion of the beauty that Nebbiolo can show and deliver in its most beautiful shape. Weightless and incredibly profound. What a wine. This belongs in my cellar and is to me certainly one of the single very best Barolos I can name these days (The 2009 made me already think so, the 2010 confirmed it now fully).
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