One has to look long to find better traditionally made Barolo. On the whole, Mascarello has been against modern hardware such as rotor fermenters and the imported barriques. On a small part of his Barolo 1996 vintage, Bartolo made a particular label with a door on it. It read “NO BARRIQUE, NO BERLUSCONI”. Two topics that could get the old Bartolo on the barricades. Under the gate was a picture of Italy’s Prime Minister. Then you could close the door when you did not want to look at him anymore! Bartolo’s comment on the increasing use of barriques for Barolo was: “French vanilla does not belong here…”.
The family-owned company Mascarello was founded in 1918 by Bartolo Mascarello’s grandfather. From the original two hectares, the property has grown a bit and today consists of five hectares of land which are spread out on different plots in Barolo and La Morra.
Mascarello stands in contrast to most other Barolo producers. Despite having vineyards on the finest and most prestigious single vineyards such as Canubbi (same as Cannubi) (1.4 ha.), Rué (0.8 ha.) San Lorenzo (0.4 ha.) And Rocche di Torriglione in
Annunziata (1.9 ha.) Has been chosen by B. Mascarello as a deliberate strategy to produce only one Barolo, which is a mixture of these.
In addition to the annual production of Barolo, they also produce Barbera and Dolcetto as well as a little bit of Freisa, under the direction of Maria Teresa. Since the year 1998, Mascarello’s wines have shown a fantastically beautiful and pure fruit. Who knows? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some of the old (large) barrels have also been replaced with new (large) barrels
- Year of foundation: approx. 1918
- Owner: Maria Teresa Mascarello
- Annual production: about 30- 35,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 5 hectares