Giuseppe Mascarello, Barolo Santo Stefano di Perno Vintage:2009 Unctuous tannins

Unctuous tannins

There is a noticeably finer if less muscular mouthfeel to the equally mineral-inflected medium weight flavors that retain a lovely sense of energy on the well-delineated and again

Opaque purple/black in color

dark raspberry and earth that is trimmed in just enough wood to merit pointing out

Giuseppe Mascarello, Barolo Santo Stefano di Perno Vintage:2009 Unctuous tanninsGood deep red. Ripe but distinctly wild nose hints at strawberry and musky roast coffee. Then a bit lower pitched in the mouth than the Villero and much more tannic on the back end. A somewhat rustic leathery element currently dominates underlying fruit. I'm not wild for the oak treatment here, which gives the finish a dry edge. Stephen Tanzer