Marcarini (Cogno) Barolo Brunate 1966 no ups and the wine is finished

and the wine is finished as brut nature so the fruit and aged complexity carry through without dosage

Frappato is the grape that ruins people for heavy red wine

and graphite alongside red and black cherry

this estate got booted out of Moulin-a-Vent and reclassified as Fleurie

with a graceful and elegant nose

Marcarini (Cogno) Barolo Brunate 1966 no ups and the wine is finishedA genuine piece of Barolo history from the cru that started it all. In 1964 a young Elvio Cogno, cellar master at Poderi Marcarini in La Morra, became one of the first to name a single vineyard on a Barolo label: Brunate. That move made Marcarini the pioneer of cru Barolo. This is the 1966 from the same hallowed site, a traditionally made Nebbiolo now nearly six decades along. At this age the wine has shed its youthful structure for the dried fruit,