Azelia, Barolo San Rocco, 2010 burgundy_wines-template with another decade of upside

with another decade of upside ahead

resulting in a robust

classical élevage in barrel

it opens with floral notes and lemon candy before revealing a linear

He propagated them by selection massale (preserving genetic diversity from heritage cuttings) and now bottles the wine as a single cuvee: pink-skinned Chardonnay planted across the estate's three classic Jura soils - Bajocien

Azelia, Barolo San Rocco, 2010 burgundy_wines-template with another decade of upsideAzelia'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