2021 Barolo Mosconi
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With a slightly deeper jeweled ruby hue, the 2021 Barolo Mosconi is more contemplative, offering layered notes of cedar, cherry cordial, Asian spices, sweet herbs, and pressed flowers. It reveals broader polished depth on the palate, with ripe, refined tannins, and a long, even-keeled finish with persistent mineral underpinnings. It is only going to improve as it leans into these more brooding tertiary layers of truffle and leather, and it will be worth waiting for. Drink 2026-2056.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The 2021 Barolo Mascani is ample, creamy and resonant in the glass in its first impression. Dark red/blue fruits, leather, lavender, spice and menthal build with some coaxing. There's plenty of Mosconi substance, but Chiara Boschis has done a terrific job in taming the tannins here. This is one of the most refined wines I have ever tasted from the Mosconi cru. Time in the glass brings out the wine's structural presence, while floral overtones and insistent tannins support the driving finish.
The E. Pira e Figli - Chiara Boschis 2021 Barolo Mosconi is structured, linear and ultimately quite mineral in character compared to the Cannubi. Its firm underlying architecture is rendered light and fragrant thanks to aromas of blue flower, grilled herb (with both rosemary and aniseed) and pulverized stone. Fruit comes from a site in Monforte d'Alba at a cool 370 meters in elevation. I came back to this bottle 24 hours after my first tasting and remarked on the elegant, chalky nature of the tannins. 9,000 bottles were produced.
Monforte d’Alba. Lustrous mid crimson. Deep cherry and raspberry with notes of cinnamon which, with aeration, change into complex, perfumed oak. Lush and juicy at the same time, but still very closed. The fruit is perfectly filled out with finely chiselled tannins. Gorgeous balance. (WS)