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Lorenzo Accomasso
Barolo Annunziata
2012
4.6
Region
Italy › Piedmont › Barolo › La Morra › Barolo DOCG
Type
red · still
Grapes
Nebbiolo
Alcohol
14.5%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes(1)
4.6
Ethereal is an overused word, but here it earns its keep. Withered roses, dried flowers and violet first, then underbrush, damp earth, tobacco and licorice; air coaxes out raspberry, red and black cherries, wild strawberry and a balsamic, herbal lift. Fourteen years on it still feels young, yet the freeze-dried berry notes are already arriving. The frame is dry, robust, old-school powerful - but the tannins land polished and fine-grained, with bright acidity holding up dark cherry, tea leaf and savoury minerality. Round, delicate, super sexy, and it leaves slowly - licorice, spice and earth trailing behind.
About
Barolo Annunziata is the bottling Lorenzo Accomasso drew from the estate's vines around the house and winery in the Annunziata frazione of La Morra - the companion wine to the flagship Rocche and Rocchette parcels a few hundred metres away. Made the way Accomasso made everything: fermented and macerated in concrete for 50 to 60 days with the cap punched down by hand, aged about three years in old 50-hl Slavonian botti and rested for years more before release. No fining, no filtration, nothing modern.
2012 in La Morra was a compressed season - cold wet spring, heat from late June, a cooler September that rescued the aromatics - and it leans mid-weight, fragrant and supple rather than muscular; critics split between praising its typicity and calling it merely decent. Accomasso released later than his neighbours as a rule and sold nearly everything from the cellar door; this bottle travelled through the German market (Oberhuber, Munich).
