Mauro Marengo, Barolo Brunate, 1996
A legendary vintage of a legendary cru from a tiny La Morra family estate. The Marengo family has been farming in La Morra since 1899, and just 1.2 hectares of their small holding sit inside Brunate, one of the most exalted single-vineyards in the entire Langhe. Mario Marengo (Marco today, with son Stefano on deck) takes a vineyard-first approach: minimal cellar intervention, traditional aging, fruit and soil first. The 1996 vintage is one of the great classical Barolo years of the modern era, the kind that rewards decades of patience. Twenty-nine years on, this is fully mature Brunate from a producer who flies well below the radar relative to neighbors working the same hill. A connoisseur's bottle to drink over the next few years.
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A legendary vintage of a legendary cru from a tiny La Morra family estate. The Marengo family has been farming in La Morra since 1899, and just 1.2 hectares of their small holding sit inside Brunate, one of the most exalted single-vineyards in the entire Langhe. Mario Marengo (Marco today, with son Stefano on deck) takes a vineyard-first approach: minimal cellar intervention, traditional aging, fruit and soil first. The 1996 vintage is one of the great classical Barolo years of the modern era, the kind that rewards decades of patience. Twenty-nine years on, this is fully mature Brunate from a producer who flies well below the radar relative to neighbors working the same hill. A connoisseur's bottle to drink over the next few years.
