Margherita Otto, Barolo, 2016
An American Bartolo Mascarello acolyte makes a classical Barolo on his own terms. Alan Manley moved to Piedmont in 2011, apprenticed in several Piedmont cellars (including Luciano Sandrone, Bartolo Mascarello, Elio Altare, Cavallotto, and Marco Marengo), and founded Margherita Otto in 2015, just in time to capture 2016 — the legendary classical Piedmont vintage that critics and growers alike now call generational. His method is faithful Mascarello: assemblaggio, a multi-commune blend (Ginestra in Monforte, Pernanno in Castiglione Falletto) co-fermented and raised in old wood. Long submerged-cap maceration, no shortcuts. The result is a 2016 of real density and proportion — sweet cherry and blackberry hemmed in by sturdy tannins, with dark soil, smoke, and rust just beginning to emerge. Ten years on, only entering its window.
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An American Bartolo Mascarello acolyte makes a classical Barolo on his own terms. Alan Manley moved to Piedmont in 2011, apprenticed in several Piedmont cellars (including Luciano Sandrone, Bartolo Mascarello, Elio Altare, Cavallotto, and Marco Marengo), and founded Margherita Otto in 2015, just in time to capture 2016 — the legendary classical Piedmont vintage that critics and growers alike now call generational. His method is faithful Mascarello: assemblaggio, a multi-commune blend (Ginestra in Monforte, Pernanno in Castiglione Falletto) co-fermented and raised in old wood. Long submerged-cap maceration, no shortcuts. The result is a 2016 of real density and proportion — sweet cherry and blackberry hemmed in by sturdy tannins, with dark soil, smoke, and rust just beginning to emerge. Ten years on, only entering its window.
