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2021 Mauro Veglio Barolo

2021 Mauro Veglio Barolo

93JS
93WS
92RP
90JD
$49.99

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93

James Suckling

Reviewed January 2025
This Barolo opens up with dried flowers, bark and mushrooms, interwoven with some dried herbs. The palate is medium-bodied with discreet fruit that is somewhat eclipsed by the significant tannin frame that should dissolve with some bottle age. Otherwise, a solid Barolo. Best after 2027. (JGA)

Professional Reviews

93

Wine Spectator

Review Date: 11/2025
Elegant and juicy, sporting strawberry, cherry, rose, hay and iron flavors, this red firms up as the pliable tannins exert themselves on the finish. Balanced and even approachable now. Best from 2027 through 2043. (BS)

92

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 06/2025
The Mauro Veglio 2021 Barolo is not especially intense or vertical, but it does offer good Nebbiolo complexity with aromas of cassis, blue flower and dark earth. I get some cinnamon or nutmeg from the oak, but it's dosed very finely and just peppered in at the end. The wine matures in barrique for 24 months, with 15% new oak. This is a pretty expression of the vintage, with 30,000 bottles created. (ML)

90

Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 05/2025
Displaying a bright red color, the 2021 Barolo is potent on the nose with forward oak spice, toasted anise, cedar, ripe cherries, and rosemary. It’s medium to full-framed and saturates the palate with angular ripe tannins, warming spice, and even acidity. Drink 2025-2035. (AF)

Notes

The 2021 Mauro Veglio Barolo (DOCG) is the estate's foundational "classic" assemblage, delivering an exceptionally pure, harmonious, and high-toned snapshot of the Langhe hills in this reference vintage. Unlike his site-specific crus (like Gattera, Arborina, or the Serralunga village bottling), this wine brings together fruit from pristine plots split across La Morra and Monforte d'Alba. This intentional blending bridges La Morra’s perfumed, sandy Marne di Sant'Agata with Monforte’s more muscular, clay-and-sandstone Formazioni di Lequio, yielding a beautifully balanced archetype of the wider appellation.

Details

OriginBarolo, Piedmont, Italy
Type/VarietalNebbiolo
SKU2034720