Azelia, Barolo San Rocco, 2010 burgundy_wines-template aged meats

aged meats

savory earth

no filtration and no added sulfur — pure fruit

and high-toned fruit accented by earthy sanguine and floral notes

so when it goes

Azelia, Barolo San Rocco, 2010 burgundy_wines-template aged meatsAzelia's other Serralunga cru in the legendary 2010, a vintage widely counted among the modern era's high water marks for Barolo. San Rocco is a south facing parcel of clay limestone marl in Serralunga d'Alba, worked by the same old vines and the same Luigi Scavino hand as their Margheria, and it delivers the classical Piedmont signature: perfumed, lifted, structured without being heavy. Long macerations, then two years of patient aging in large casks