2020 Bartolo Mascarello Barolo DOCG, Piedmont, Italy 1.5L Magnum De Fermo Blend of different plots

Blend of different plots

Aged in 500-liter barrels (no new wood) for 18 months

La Pretension 2022 compared to 2021 is a fresher and more mineral wine without compromising the texture of 2021

long maceration with wild yeasts and no temperature control

natural yeast fermentation in open-top vat with regular pigeage

2020 Bartolo Mascarello Barolo DOCG, Piedmont, Italy 1.5L Magnum De Fermo Blend of different plotsThis is the estates single Barolo, a traditional blend of Nebbiolo from Cannubi, San Lorenzo, Ru (Barolo) and Rocche dellAnnunziata (La Morra), co fermented to express the whole territory rather than single crus. Fermentation takes place in old concrete vats with native yeasts, followed by an extended maceration under cappello sommerso; in 2020 the wine spent about fifty five days on skins. levage is in large Slavonian oak botti for roughly thirty