Giuseppe Mascarello e Figlio, Barolo, Villero Castiglione Falletto

Small glass. This is a good barolo, but no magic unfolding.

1997 vintage

Another bad bottle

1997 vintage

NK Monprivato Vertical (Chez Goldberg, Greenwich Village, NYC) : [Double-decanted about 1pm for 4 hours.] Lovely nose of red fruit, menthol and spice. Lots of sweet fruit and tannin in the mouth. Stunningly long finish. Very impressive for what I've found to be a hit and miss vintage for Barolo.

1997 vintage

Dinner at the Goldberg's Double decanted in the AM Rich red fruited and ripe. Cherry fruit, balsam, and roses. A forward, supple wine. Round and fleshy on the palate, soft around the edges, but still with a little stony background and reasonable structure. A solid '97. 90

1997 vintage

Festa del Piemonte: Gala Dinner (The Pool in NYC) : Good structure and fruit and drinking just fine. Getting to the end of the evening but seems like a good wine.

1997 vintage

This bottle was totally shot - sour with rotten leaves. I tried to inquire about the provenance but didn't get any answers.

1997 vintage

Dark fruited nose that was somewhat closed for most of the night. Improved with air and showed some rose petals and a bit of ripe fruit characters on the nose. Good acidity with tar, iron, red berries, and dark cherries on the palate. Still quite tannic and not showing everything. Good finish. 93ish

1997 vintage

MvM theme lunch at Bar Cicheti. Tasted semi-blind. Drank in Grassl Cru. Bottle popped about 4 hours in advance. Appearance cloudy fine sediment, medium intensity, garnet colour. Legs. Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of salami, bacon meat, mushrooms, tertiary earth. Developed. On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity, medium+ alcohol (14.5%), resolved structured high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweet tar, mushroom earth, sweet ripe dark red plums, licorice, dark spice. Long finish. Very very good quality. …

1997 vintage

Corked - total bummer!

1997 vintage

Nebbiolo night on 17 May 2018 (Winil, Moscow) : 96/100 A top Barolo. Вышак. Thin, very fine and elegant, weightless, with a myriad of flowers and berries. Still very young, with little tertiary aromas. Multidimensional. Less ethereal, than previous magnum I tried a few months back, but no less enjoyable. Again, this venerable Mascarello Monprivato 1997 totally drinks better from a magnum than from a regular bottle. Nebbiolo night at Winil / 17 May 2018

1997 vintage

Piedmont Night at Winil on March 16, 2018 (Winil, Moscow) : 98/100 Comparative test of Monprivato 1997 in a regular bottle versus the same wine in a Magnum. Absolute winner of the night, this complex and multifaceted beauty easily swamps all suitors away. Juicy, textured, complex, slowly evolving in the glass and showing all shades of a truly great Barolo. Bouquet of smoke, tar, cloudy cranberry juice and other red berries, still quite young but already entering its peak and …

1997 vintage

Piedmont Night at Winil on March 16, 2018 (Winil, Moscow) : 95/100 Comparative test of Monprivato 1997 in a regular bottle versus the same wine in a Magnum. Surprisingly enough, it feels young - well, definitely younger than 1.5L. Thin, with dark berries, ripe cherries, underbrush, and forest floor - and red plum resonating on the palate. Light and weightless. Needs more cellar time if you ask me. Piedmont evening at Winil, 16 March 2018

1997 vintage

Sadly, this is my last bottle. Fortunately, it is very consistent with my last note. Simply stated, this is a wonderful Monprivato: medium to full-bodied, still somewhat tannic, but the tannins are very soft and do not detract at all from the enjoyment of the wine. The fruit is ripe -- borderline sweet for Barolo, though the sweetness is most welcome, and far from over-the-top. Mature notes abound: Ancho chile, tobacco, beef broth -- and the combination with the generous, …

1997 vintage

Some heat. Nose: B+/B++ Palate: B++/A-

1997 vintage

Medium brick/garnet core. Cola, brick dust, bacon and roses on the nose. Medium-bodied, beautifully balanced acidity, with a surprising dash of sweetness on the attack. The remaining tannins are modest and very soft. Roses, earth, dried leaves and tea mingle with an understated yet strong backbone of ripe cherry fruit. The length is very long.Yes, this is unusually ripe and inviting for a Barolo, but for my tastes this is a plus. The class, elegance and complexity of Monprivato are …

1997 vintage

Agree with pretty much everything Guy Des Rosiers noted below, except I did not find it as "ripe" as he apparently did (perhaps we have different meanings for "ripe"), and I think, while delicious now, it has room to improve with additional age. A really nice bottle!

1997 vintage

fantastic bottle - what a nose - very youthful - 3 hours decant - best vintage for barolo - full bodied - next bottle in 10 years - WOTN

1997 vintage

perfect cork, great fill, lots of bricking... but wine was cooked or otherwise damaged or defective. Bought from HDH Auction, they claim came for a cellar with perfect provenance, and that it was purchased on release.

1997 vintage

these two bottles were fanastic, this was (as expected for a '97 barolo) full bodied and packed with material, fruit was on the red side but serious and not light, great acid and loads of spice, tannins were pleasant but very present... just great fruit, great structure and felt like it could go another 15 - 20 years... bought this for $130, loved it so went to look for more and of course the cheapest bottle at this point was …

1997 vintage

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1997 vintage

Gentle notes of dried herb and mushroom on the nose. On the palate, delicate elements again dominated by mushroom and all sorts of earth tones. A graceful wine that manages to strike a fine balance between masculinity and femininity. Drinking well presently, but seems to have significant life ahead of it. Based on prior notes from other tasters, there seems to be some significant bottle variation. This particular example displayed an overall impression of balance and airy nuance. Paired beautifully …

1997 vintage

Enjoyable, but showing a mild case of cork taint. There has been some bottle variation. I've had two stellar bottles, one clearly flawed and this, which was just slightly flawed and the flaw became apparent only after being exposed to a lot of air.

1997 vintage

Truffle Dinner....Corked

1997 vintage

Showing age. Quite a lot of browning. Fruit on the wane. Acidity coming through quite a lot. Very tarry in its aroma profile. On the decline, but a lovely, complex wine.

1997 vintage

Sept. 9 League of Gentlemen Tasting chez moi : I purchased this on release and have cellared it immaculately. It is an old-style Barolo, from a non-classic vintage that should drink early. The style of wine will not appeal to everyone; it certainly does appeal to me. The appearance is clean and bright; the wine is showing age, as the colour is a dark garnet. The note is redolent with tar, roses, undergrowth, truffles, bing cherries. On the palate, the …

1997 vintage

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