Barolo DOCG Arborina 2019, Mauro Veglio (OCC of 6)
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Vintage: 2019
Region: Piedmont, Italy
Varietal: 100% Nebbiolo
Appellation: Barolo
Type: Red
Drinking Window: 2024 -2044
Alcohol content: 14.5%
Scores (if you care about): 94/100, Monica Larner Robert Parker;
94/100, JamesSuckling. com
Tasting notes and Reviews
2019 Vintage
With fruit from one of the most beautiful spots in La Morra that enjoys wide panoramic views of the surrounding vineyards, this is another classic Nebbiolo from a great vintage. The Mauro Veglio 2019 Barolo Arborina opens to wild cherry, licorice and blue flower. The house style prizes just a tad more richness and concentration, although the quality of fruit remains beautifully polished throughout. Arborina ages in barrique for 24 months with 25% new oak and 75% neutral wood. Production is 6,500 bottles. 94/100, Monica Larner, RobertParker.com, Aug 2023
The team at Mauro Veglio is releasing a new wine this year, and you will find the 2019 Barolo del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba reviewed here. Fruit comes from a parcel that was leased by this estate in 2019, consisting of two hectares of Nebbiolo and half a hectare of Barbera. The site has two MGSs: Manocino goes into the new wine, and Lirano goes into the classic blended Barolo.
Lovely perfume to this with orange blossom, cherry, and strawberry aromas. The palate is medium- to full-bodied with firm and racy tannins and a long and refined finish. This shows polish, integration and length that is excellent for the vintage. Try after 2027. 94/100, JamesSuckling, Jun 2023
2018 Vintage
Wines from Arborina in La Morra are easy to recognize thanks to the especially silky and smooth quality of the tannins. This can make them slightly more accessible, as is the case with this vintage. The 2018 Barolo Arborina (with 6,500 bottles produced) sees its fruit sourced from a 2.5-hectare site at a breezy 250 to 300 meters above sea level. It represents a special selection of clusters from the oldest vines (about 35 years in age), and winemaking takes it through mostly neutral oak with 25% new wood. The wine shows redcurrant, wild plum, rose and crushed stone. 93/100, Monica Larner, RobertParker.com, Aug'2022
The Family & Estate
The Veglio family has been associated with Wine making for over a 100 years starting as farmers and sharecroppers.
Starting 1960s, Mauro Veglio's father Angelo bought his first vineyards in the locality of Gattera. It was a splendid piece of land in the frazione of Annunziata in the township of La Morra, where today they produce their Barolo Gattera DOCG. In 1979 in Annunziata, the family acquired the farmhouse called Cascina Nuova and some of its property including about five hectares of vineyards, among which were the cru of Arborina and Rocche dell’Annunziata. It was the beginning of a new path.
Of Angelo’s three sons, only Mauro followed in the footsteps of his father. In the 1980s, not many people were willing to bet on Barolo, even though it was the most promising challenge in winemaking. In 1986 at 25 years old, Mauro took over the management of the winery after his father came down with an illness.
This was when the winery and farmhouse underwent restoration, the vineyards were renewed, and the first experiments in winemaking were carried out.
In 1987, Mauro married Daniela, and several years later in 1996, the vineyards of Monforte d’Alba were added to their property in La Morra in the frazioneof Castelletto. These were adventurous years, during which the producers of Barolo were beginning to exchange ideas and advice, technology and machines. New concepts were formed together with groups of visionaries in the winemaking field, contributing to innovations in making Barolo wine. No longer were the wines rustic and poorly crafted, but they were clean, ready to drink, with a higher polyphenolic extract and a measured use of small barrels. 1992 marks the year of their first harvest and vinification in the new winery, built next to the foundations of the farmhouse Cascina Nuova.
Mauro Veglio Castelletto comes from the Castelletto area between Monforte d'Alba and the frazione of Perno along the confines of Serralunga d'Alba from Vineyards that have a southeast exposure. The vines are between 20-40yrs old with majority of the vineyards planted between end of 1970s and 1994
Vinification
The maceration on the skin in temperature controlled rotary fermenters lasts about 8 days before the grapes are pressed followed by alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel for about 20 days followed by temperature controlled malolactic fermentation.
Mauro Veglio, like their neighbour Elio Altare have embraced modern techniques to age their Barolos and the results, just like Elio Altare are phenomenal.
Starting December the wines the wine is transferred into small oak barrels (40% new and 60% used) where these age for another 24 months. The wine is decanted in stainless steel and bottled without fining and filtration and goes through further bottle ageing for approx another 2 years before being released.
The prevalent amount of sandstone and the well ventilated microclimate creates a tannic Barolo that is very fresh with balsamic, mint and eucalyptus notes. Mauro Veglio Barolo's are approachable on release but with the lovely qualities to age for decades like all great Barolos.
2019 Vintage
With fruit from one of the most beautiful spots in La Morra that enjoys wide panoramic views of the surrounding vineyards, this is another classic Nebbiolo from a great vintage. The Mauro Veglio 2019 Barolo Arborina opens to wild cherry, licorice and blue flower. The house style prizes just a tad more richness and concentration, although the quality of fruit remains beautifully polished throughout. Arborina ages in barrique for 24 months with 25% new oak and 75% neutral wood. Production is 6,500 bottles. 94/100, Monica Larner, RobertParker.com, Aug 2023
The team at Mauro Veglio is releasing a new wine this year, and you will find the 2019 Barolo del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba reviewed here. Fruit comes from a parcel that was leased by this estate in 2019, consisting of two hectares of Nebbiolo and half a hectare of Barbera. The site has two MGSs: Manocino goes into the new wine, and Lirano goes into the classic blended Barolo.
Lovely perfume to this with orange blossom, cherry, and strawberry aromas. The palate is medium- to full-bodied with firm and racy tannins and a long and refined finish. This shows polish, integration and length that is excellent for the vintage. Try after 2027. 94/100, JamesSuckling, Jun 2023
2018 Vintage
Wines from Arborina in La Morra are easy to recognize thanks to the especially silky and smooth quality of the tannins. This can make them slightly more accessible, as is the case with this vintage. The 2018 Barolo Arborina (with 6,500 bottles produced) sees its fruit sourced from a 2.5-hectare site at a breezy 250 to 300 meters above sea level. It represents a special selection of clusters from the oldest vines (about 35 years in age), and winemaking takes it through mostly neutral oak with 25% new wood. The wine shows redcurrant, wild plum, rose and crushed stone. 93/100, Monica Larner, RobertParker.com, Aug'2022
The Family & Estate
The Veglio family has been associated with Wine making for over a 100 years starting as farmers and sharecroppers.
Starting 1960s, Mauro Veglio's father Angelo bought his first vineyards in the locality of Gattera. It was a splendid piece of land in the frazione of Annunziata in the township of La Morra, where today they produce their Barolo Gattera DOCG. In 1979 in Annunziata, the family acquired the farmhouse called Cascina Nuova and some of its property including about five hectares of vineyards, among which were the cru of Arborina and Rocche dell’Annunziata. It was the beginning of a new path.
Of Angelo’s three sons, only Mauro followed in the footsteps of his father. In the 1980s, not many people were willing to bet on Barolo, even though it was the most promising challenge in winemaking. In 1986 at 25 years old, Mauro took over the management of the winery after his father came down with an illness.
This was when the winery and farmhouse underwent restoration, the vineyards were renewed, and the first experiments in winemaking were carried out.
In 1987, Mauro married Daniela, and several years later in 1996, the vineyards of Monforte d’Alba were added to their property in La Morra in the frazioneof Castelletto. These were adventurous years, during which the producers of Barolo were beginning to exchange ideas and advice, technology and machines. New concepts were formed together with groups of visionaries in the winemaking field, contributing to innovations in making Barolo wine. No longer were the wines rustic and poorly crafted, but they were clean, ready to drink, with a higher polyphenolic extract and a measured use of small barrels. 1992 marks the year of their first harvest and vinification in the new winery, built next to the foundations of the farmhouse Cascina Nuova.
Mauro Veglio Castelletto comes from the Castelletto area between Monforte d'Alba and the frazione of Perno along the confines of Serralunga d'Alba from Vineyards that have a southeast exposure. The vines are between 20-40yrs old with majority of the vineyards planted between end of 1970s and 1994
Vinification
The maceration on the skin in temperature controlled rotary fermenters lasts about 8 days before the grapes are pressed followed by alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel for about 20 days followed by temperature controlled malolactic fermentation.
Mauro Veglio, like their neighbour Elio Altare have embraced modern techniques to age their Barolos and the results, just like Elio Altare are phenomenal.
Starting December the wines the wine is transferred into small oak barrels (40% new and 60% used) where these age for another 24 months. The wine is decanted in stainless steel and bottled without fining and filtration and goes through further bottle ageing for approx another 2 years before being released.
The prevalent amount of sandstone and the well ventilated microclimate creates a tannic Barolo that is very fresh with balsamic, mint and eucalyptus notes. Mauro Veglio Barolo's are approachable on release but with the lovely qualities to age for decades like all great Barolos.