Azelia, Barolo San Rocco, 2010 burgundy_wines-template it opens with floral notes

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

with minimal sulfur

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

so when it goes

delicate florals and red-fruit brightness from the Frappato

Azelia, Barolo San Rocco, 2010 burgundy_wines-template it opens with floral notesAzelia'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