Marcarini (Cogno) Barolo Brunate 1966 no ups with a graceful and elegant

with a graceful and elegant nose

where the value still lives

baked stone fruit

and graphite alongside red and black cherry

This single-vineyard Nebbiolo ages 40 months in large barrels and arrives in a generous 3-liter format

Marcarini (Cogno) Barolo Brunate 1966 no ups with a graceful and elegantA genuine piece of Barolo history from the cru that started it all. In 1964 a young Elvio Cogno, cellar master at Poderi Marcarini in La Morra, became one of the first to name a single vineyard on a Barolo label: Brunate. That move made Marcarini the pioneer of cru Barolo. This is the 1966 from the same hallowed site, a traditionally made Nebbiolo now nearly six decades along. At this age the wine has shed its youthful structure for the dried fruit,