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2011 Barolo, La Serra, Marcarini, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Ready - youthful
Monica Larner
89/100
Product: 20118001409
2011 Barolo, La Serra, Marcarini, Piedmont, Italy

Description

Marcarini's is a true interpretation of this breezy vineyard high up the La Morra escarpment: highlyperfumed with an intoxicating mix of incense, spice, tea, tobacco and dried rose, it's very whimsical. Difficult to pin down, elusive and ethereal, it's earthy yet also layered with rose petals – charming even in youth.

Manuel assumes charge of the defiantly traditional, 12-hectare Marcarini estate, along with his three children. Central to this historic, 19th-century cantina, based in central La Morra, with sweeping views over their vineyards below, are the two Barolo vineyards – La Serra and Brunate, of which they own fine plots.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2011
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Full Bodied
Producer Marcarini

Critics reviews

Monica Larner 89/100
The 2011 Barolo La Serra shows rough lines and a loosely knit texture. There are notes of black fruit, tar, smoke and resin.Monica Larner - 30/04/2019
Monica Larner, RobertParker.com (Apr 2019)

About this wine

Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo is the grape behind the Barolo and Barbaresco wines and is hardly ever seen outside the confines of Piedmont. It takes its name from "nebbia" which is Italian for fog, a frequent phenomenon in the region.
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Marcarini

Few views in Barolo can compete with the one from Marcarini’s terrace in La Morra. Encompassing most of the region’s communes and vineyards, one only has to look south-east to see Barolo’s modest size, cradled in the Italian Alps. It is fitting that Marcarini occupies this prime location; the winery is built underneath La Morra’s medieval watchtower, a signpost to the Marchetti family cantina that’s visible across the region.
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