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Barbera d'Alba DOC 'Scudetto'
Piedmont, Italy
The ‘Scudetto’ vineyard lies on calcareous clay slopes in Castiglione Falletto, where Barbera expresses both natural acidity and remarkable depth. Mascarello employs native-yeast fermentation and long ageing in large oak casks, crafting a wine that balances Barbera’s vivid fruit with subtle savoury undertones. This is a wine of precision and finesse rather than sheer power. Plum, cherry and sweet herbs lead on the nose, evolving into a rounded palate with polished structure and fine length. There’s a beautiful interplay between freshness and richness, making it versatile with food. Ideal with roasted duck, mushroom polenta or aged Parmigiano.
Technical Sheet
The Producer
The Mascarello family has produced Barolo since 1881. That makes them elder statesmen in the Piemontese winemaking fraternity and they bring much-needed constancy to a region obsessed with the latest fashions. These are wines that are made in the vineyard. Manual weeding, rigorous crop thinning and an exceptionally late harvest all combine to create raw material of the very highest quality. In the cellar, the grapes are treated to lengthy macerations and even longer maturation in Slavonian botte. Such traditional techniques imbue the wines with a velvety approachability in their youth and the capacity to acquire weight and complexity as they age. Mauro Mascarello - now in his 80s – is slowly handing over the winemaking reins to his children, Giuseppe and Elena. Change is slow here and, in my book, that’s a very good thing. All of the Mascarello wines are now on allocation which is, sadly, decreasing every year.
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