Massolino 'Parafada'
Barolo 2019
Piedmont, Italy
Regular price£425.00
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Style: Red | Drink from: 2028 |
ABV: 14.5% | Drink to: 2045 |
Packaging: OCC | Stock arriving: November 2024 |
Critic scores
97+ RP, 96 AG, 18 JR
Critic reviews
"With fruit from 60- to 65-year-old vines in Serralunga d'Alba, the Massolino 2019 Barolo Parafada is vibrant and bright with very pretty aromas of wild cherry, blue flower, iron ore and rusty nail. The wine displays very pretty intensity but remains balanced all the while. There is a lot of precision and definition in this well-structured Nebbiolo. Be patient with this wine. Some 6,000 bottles will be released this fall."
Monica Larner, August 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2019 Barolo Parafada is a wine of tremendous inner strength, as if all of its energy is focused inwards. Dark cherry, smoke, leather, gravel, scorched earth and licorice slowly come alive in the glass. Dense, potent and muscular, the 2019 offers tons of textural intensity and brooding, virile power. It is fascinating to taste next to the Margheria, which is a bit more aromatic and nuanced, while the Parafada is all muscle. This is one of the best editions I can remember tasting."
Antonio Galloni, November 2022, Vinous.com
"Autumn-mulch nose. Fragrant and mineral and the fruit trumps the tannin more than in Margheria. Less pinched and drying. Vibrato finish."
Jancis Robinson, November 2023, JancisRobinson.com
Monica Larner, August 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2019 Barolo Parafada is a wine of tremendous inner strength, as if all of its energy is focused inwards. Dark cherry, smoke, leather, gravel, scorched earth and licorice slowly come alive in the glass. Dense, potent and muscular, the 2019 offers tons of textural intensity and brooding, virile power. It is fascinating to taste next to the Margheria, which is a bit more aromatic and nuanced, while the Parafada is all muscle. This is one of the best editions I can remember tasting."
Antonio Galloni, November 2022, Vinous.com
"Autumn-mulch nose. Fragrant and mineral and the fruit trumps the tannin more than in Margheria. Less pinched and drying. Vibrato finish."
Jancis Robinson, November 2023, JancisRobinson.com
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