Winemaker Notes
The Mauro Veglio Barolo is made from the grapes grown in Mauro Veglio's youngest and most vigorous vineyards in the townships of La Morra and Monforte d'Alba, and vinified as it was in the past for a balanced harmony of its diverse characteristics.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This Barolo opens up with dried flowers, bark and mushrooms, interwoven with some dried herbs. The palate is medium-bodied with discreet fruit that is somewhat eclipsed by the significant tannin frame that should dissolve with some bottle age. Otherwise, a solid Barolo. Best after 2027.
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Wine Spectator
Elegant and juicy, sporting strawberry, cherry, rose, hay and iron flavors, this red firms up as the pliable tannins exert themselves on the finish. Balanced and even approachable now. Best from 2027 through 2043. 2,500 cases made, 1,000 cases imported.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Mauro Veglio 2021 Barolo is not especially intense or vertical, but it does offer good Nebbiolo complexity with aromas of cassis, blue flower and dark earth. I get some cinnamon or nutmeg from the oak, but it's dosed very finely and just peppered in at the end. The wine matures in barrique for 24 months, with 15% new oak. This is a pretty expression of the vintage, with 30,000 bottles created.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Displaying a bright red color, the 2021 Barolo is potent on the nose with forward oak spice, toasted anise, cedar, ripe cherries, and rosemary. It’s medium to full-framed and saturates the palate with angular ripe tannins, warming spice, and even acidity. Drink 2025-2035.
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Vinous
The 2021 Barolo is a classy, elegant entry-level offering. Dried cherry, spice, new leather, dried herbs and rose petal are beautifully lifted in this silky, mid-weight Barolo from Veglio.
Responsible for some of the most elegant and age-worthy wines in the world, Nebbiolo, named for the ubiquitous autumnal fog (called nebbia in Italian), is the star variety of northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Grown throughout the area, as well as in the neighboring Valle d’Aosta and Valtellina, it reaches its highest potential in the Piedmontese villages of Barolo, Barbaresco and Roero. Outside of Italy, growers are still very much in the experimentation stage but some success has been achieved in parts of California. Somm Secret—If you’re new to Nebbiolo, start with a charming, wallet-friendly, early-drinking Langhe Nebbiolo or Nebbiolo d'Alba.
The center of the production of the world’s most exclusive and age-worthy red wines made from Nebbiolo, the Barolo wine region includes five core townships: La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Serralunga d’Alba, Castiglione Falletto and the Barolo village itself, as well as a few outlying villages. The landscape of Barolo, characterized by prominent and castle-topped hills, is full of history and romance centered on the Nebbiolo grape. Its wines, with the signature “tar and roses” aromas, have a deceptively light garnet color but full presence on the palate and plenty of tannins and acidity. In a well-made Barolo wine, one can expect to find complexity and good evolution with notes of, for example, strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, truffle, anise, fresh and dried herbs, tobacco and violets.
There are two predominant soil types here, which distinguish Barolo from the lesser surrounding areas. Compact and fertile Tortonian sandy marls define the vineyards farthest west and at higher elevations. Typically the Barolo wines coming from this side, from La Morra and Barolo, can be approachable relatively early on in their evolution and represent the “feminine” side of Barolo, often closer in style to Barbaresco with elegant perfume and fresh fruit.
On the eastern side of the Barolo wine region, Helvetian soils of compressed sandstone and chalks are less fertile, producing wines with intense body, power and structured tannins. This more “masculine” style comes from Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba. The township of Castiglione Falletto covers a spine with both soil types.
The best Barolo wines need 10-15 years before they are ready to drink, and can further age for several decades.