Marco Marengo Barolo Brunate 2020
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"One of my favorite Barolos. Harmonious, complete and complex. They do not intend to represent the modern or traditional style, they simply take into account the expression of the terroir." This is how Pedro Parra, the world's greatest terroir expert, aptly defines the essence of Marco Marengo's wines. Marco was a biochemist, but was asked by his father Mario to take over the tiny winery below the family home in La Morra, and some plots in the best crus of Barolo. Everything is still handcrafted by Marco, his wife Jenny and son Stefano, to the delight of hardcore barolistas.
"The Marengo family has owned vineyards in the celebrated Brunate cru of La Morra since 1903. They are now blessed with two parcels right in the middle of what Pedro Parra describes as the "Grand Cru" section of Brunate. Some of the Nebbiolo vines on the precious, smaller, 0.14-ha lower parcel of fractured loamy limestone at 340m were planted in 1942. On the upper, just over a hectare of loamy limestone and clay at about 380m, with its deeper soils, are vines planted in 1955." Jancis Robinson