2016 Bartolo Mascarello Langhe Nebbiolo
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - When is a Langhe Nebbiolo not a Langhe Nebbiolo? Does this designation even mean anything that matters when you’re drinking the ‘entry’ level wines of a Bartolo Mascarello (or Giuseppe Rinaldi, Burlotto, etc. for that matter)? This is a damn good wine.
Yes 2016 was a good vintage. And it shows here. This wine is powerful, dense, utterly drinkable now - possibly even gluggable. But it has plenty of tannin and acid to age for a decade or two. But drink it now.
This is also a fine window into the wines of Bartolo Mascarello of this decade. They are intense, finely crafted, with just a little hit of sweet fruit on the entry (a trick, because the mid-palate and finish are utterly dry).
The wine: gorgeous nose of red and dark fruit, earth. The palate is mid to light weight, dark fruited, peppery. The finish just goes on and on and on as it slowly fans out. Well balanced, and a good bit of tannins, especially as the bottle was opened, but two hours later, with food, they are barely noticeable. It’s a young wine now but even so is showing the complexity of fruits and earth. Probably will get better. I can’t wait to taste the 2016 Barolo.
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