Bartolo Mascarello, Barolo, 2008 so060225 cellar offer Fourrier's Vieilles Vignes designation here

Fourrier's Vieilles Vignes designation here signals old vines with root systems that reach deep into the limestone-and-clay bedrock

elegant style — and Fratelli Alessandria

Napa Chardonnay with backbone

The Grower Series Syrah #2 sources fruit from two of his preferred Heathcote and Harcourt growers — predominantly whole-bunch fermented

then made it the way he makes everything

Bartolo Mascarello, Barolo, 2008 so060225 cellar offer Fourrier's Vieilles Vignes designation hereBartolo Mascarello needs little introduction: this is the standard bearer for traditional Barolo, made by one of the region's most revered families. The estate has bottled under its own name since 1918, and Maria Teresa Mascarello carries on her late father's uncompromising methods, blending four classic crus (Cannubi, San Lorenzo, Rue, Rocche dell'Annunziata) and co fermenting them into a single Barolo aged in large Slavonian botti. The 2008 is a