Recensioner av viner från Mario Marengo
2004 Marengo Barolo Brunate
The 2004 Barolo Brunate is textbook Barolo from one of Piedmont’s most historic sites. Gorgeous, open aromatics lead to a perfumed core of dark cherries, spices, menthol and eucalyptus. This vibrant, pure Barolo needs bottle age to come together, but it is a majestic wine in the making. Readers looking for an under the radar gem need look no further than Marco Marengo’s sublime 2004 Barolo Brunate. Anticipated maturity: 2011-2024. 95 points (The Wine Advocate)
2004 Marengo Barolo Brunate
Medium red. Lovely lift to the aromas of brown spices, minerals and dried flowers. Lush, supple and classically dry, with excellent breadth and depth. Firm acids and an enticing inner-mouth floral character give lift to the complex flavors of brown spices, truffle and underbrush. Very young but harmonious and pliant from the outset, and fresh on the aftertaste. 92 points (Stephen Tanzer)
2004 Marengo Barolo Brunate Vecchie Vigne
The 2004 Barolo Brunate Vecchie Vigne is a big, strapping wine loaded with fruit and a generous, enveloping personality. It reveals a lovely purity to its dark cherry fruit, with spice, mint and sweet toasted oak nuances that develop in the glass, adding further complexity. This old-vine cuvee offers greater concentration than the Brunate, but its massiveness has come at a loss of some of the perfume of the regular Brunate, which I slightly preferred for its greater freshness and minerality. 2004 is the first vintage of this wine. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2024. 94 points (The Wine Advocate)
2004 Marengo Barolo Brunate Vecchie Vigne
Another new release from Marengo, but there were just two barrels of this juice, one new and one used. Good deep red. Precise aromas and flavors of dried rose, minerals, menthol and spicy oak; there's something Burgundian about this. Then lush, silky and deep, with insidious texture and flavor, and superb balance. Offers a rare combination of pliancy and perfume. Finishes with very suave tannins and a long, rising finish featuring late notes of mocha and brown spices. 92 points (Stephen Tanzer)
2004 Marengo Barolo Brunate Vecchie Vigne
Very perfumed, with lovely floral and strawberry aromas. Full-bodied, reserved and very silky, with a long, caressing finish. Subtle yet intense. Stylish. From old vines. Best after 2011. 92 points (The Wine Spectator)
2004 Marengo Barolo Bricco delle Viole
Marengo’s 2004 Barolo Bricco delle Viole is always a taut, focused wine but in 2004 it is surprisingly generous in its expression of roses, black cherries, spices and minerals. This offers superb inner perfume to its fruit and notable harmony. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2022. 91 points (The Wine Advocate)
2004 Marengo Barolo
In top vintages Marco Marengo can give some of his more famous neighbors a run for their money. 2004 is without question one of those vintages. Readers looking for a source of first-rate Barolo at affordable prices should consider these new releases, all of which are outstanding. Marengos 2004 Barolo is a lovely, poised wine. It offers feminine, perfumed fruit in the graceful, finessed expression typical of the Barolos of La Morra. It should be a terrific value as well. This new bottling is a blend of fruit sourced from the Fontanazza vineyard as well as Arborina fruit Marengo receives from Elio Altare in exchange for the grapes he gives Altare from his holdings in Brunate. It-s hard to believe Marengo sold this juice in bulk prior to the 2004 vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2016. 90 points (The Wine Advocate)
