Bartolo Mascarello – Barbera d’Alba – 2021

Description

The construction of the winery bears a precise date: January 1, 1920, the year when young Giulio Mascarello returned from the war and decided to try his hand as a small producer. At that time Barolo consumption was characterized by private individuals buying demijohns, while only ten percent was sold in bottles. In the 1930s, the small winery consolidated by acquiring two Piedmontese giornate in the Cannubi area and then in San Lorenzo and ai Rué, which were added to Monrobiolo known as the Bussia of Barolo and Torriglione. The technique of blending grapes from different vineyards favored the consistent quality of the product each year, the great Barolo winemakers of the time masterfully applied this method, and Mascarello was certainly among the most important exponents of this stylistic current. Despite his friendship with the great producers of the area, he held firm as a small winemaker-producer with no ambitions to increase his winery beyond measure, although there was no shortage of opportunities and with his son Bartolo joining the company, things did not change so Barolo Mascarello gained prestige in Italy and abroad. Today the winery is in the hands of his daughter Maria Teresa, who continues to carry on a long history of a wine identity that comes from afar.