Azelia, Barolo Margheria Vintage:2008

Azelia, Barolo Margheria Vintage:2008The cherry and plum flavors are buried in a dense matrix of tannins, shaded by tobacco, leather, tar and iron notes. Linear and persistent on the finish, if less expressive at this stage than its peers. Best from 2021 through 2040. 566 cases made. BS

I imagine it will still be fabulous at age 30

honeysuckle and dried apricot

bilberry and light estuarine scents that gently waft from the glass

What a gorgeous wine this is

Bright red fruit

with bright lemon

This is Lot L033331E100008

Here the cool and highly restrained nose is both more densely fruited and a bit more complex as well if a bit less elegant because like the Mazoyères this is clearly Gevrey in basic character

bloody notes on the nose

Drink now-2020+ Tasted December 2008

it shows detailed and nuanced

the yields are so low and the vines so exposed that Bachelet says that he always harvests this parcel first)