1955 Bartolo Mascarello Barolo DOCG Piedmont, Italy 1.9L

1955 Bartolo Mascarello Barolo DOCG Piedmont, Italy 1.9L

$2,950.00

Drawn from the family’s classic quartet of vineyards—Cannubi, San Lorenzo and Rué in Barolo, plus Rocche dell’Annunziata in La Morra—this 1955 was made in the old Cantina Mascarello era, fermented in concrete with long maceration and raised in large Slavonian botti before a very late release. Labeled “Canubbi” at the time for its prestige but in fact a blend of the estate’s parcels, it’s a fully traditional, cask-aged Barolo from one of the great post-war vintages, now in a place where tertiary perfume, resolved structure and the estate’s signature finesse are front and center.

Vintage 1955 in Barolo: Contemporary and retrospective accounts group 1955 among the strongest 1950s Barolo years—classically structured wines with enough ripeness, firm tannins and acidity to age for many decades

Where Mascarello was in 1955: The estate, founded by Giulio Mascarello in 1919, was still officially “Cantina Mascarello”; Bartolo had joined his father after WWII (around 1945) but 1955 wines are generally considered Giulio’s work, with Bartolo assisting.

So this bottle sits right at that post-war turning point: Giulio still at the helm, Bartolo in the cellar, Barolo just beginning to move from anonymous bulk to estate-bottled legend, and the house already working with the same sites and methods that define Mascarello today.

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