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The January 2023 Auction: Part 4

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Auction Ends: 1/26/2023 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #431. Cantina (Bartolo) Mascarello Barolo 1970

Description: Consists of 2 Bottles, 0.75L
Region: Italy, Piedmont, Barolo.
Score: 92+ JG.
"It is funny, given how much I love the wines from Bartolo Mascarello, that I had never previously tasted the 1970 until I was served this wine double blind by a friend here in New York a few years ago. It is a beautifully mature and classic vintage for the Maestro, offering up a pure and complex bouquet of cherries, gamebirds, fresh oregano, gentle road tar, forest floor, a dollop of black licorice and a topnote of dried roses. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and still quite structured for a 1970, with a fine core, tangy acids, still a fair bit of ripe tannin to carry it forward and lovely focus, length and grip on the well-balanced and very classy finish. This wine may well still be climbing in quality and not yet into its apogee." John Gilman, View From the Cellar #48, Dec 2013
Provenance: The Multitude Cellar
Notes: 1x3.5cm, 1x3.0cm, 2 Lightly wrinkled capsule, 2 lightly torn, 2 mold stained, 2 lightly scuffed labels.
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Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $1,300

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