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Paolo Scavino Barolo ‘Carobric’ 2017

Nebbiolo from La Morra, Castiglione Falletto, Barolo (sub-region), Piedmont, Italy

$190

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The 2017 Barolo Carobric is one of the standouts in this range, as it often is. It has an extra dimension of depth and volume that works so well here. Sweet red cherry, cedar, sweet pipe tobacco, anise and brambly notes build as this striking, expressive Barolo shows off its considerable charm. What a pretty wine it is. 2027-2042

Antonio Galloni, Vinous

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Why is this Wine so Yummy?

I often find myself frustrated tasting through hundreds of wines a week. Too boring, to ripe, to technical, just no fun. Speeding through a trade tasting of wines from around the world, I was about ready to walk out when I spied a few wines that made me pause. Paolo Scarvino’s Baroli. The afternoon turned into an epic success. In front of may lay a cluster of real wines. Cru, single vineyard, Baroli this beautiful are less common than you think! These were wines that inspired, poured by Riccardo who clearly knew what he was talking about, lived it, breathed it. It seems passion runs through the veins of the entire business!

Looking at Scavino’s website I found these words which sum up the Paolo Scavino wines:

“Through over 60 years of experience his focus has been to invest on important cru of Nebbiolo to show the uniqueness of each terroir.

Their work is inspired by the love and respect they have for their territory and they pursue purity of expression, complexity and elegance for their wines from the three local grapes Dolcetto, Barbera and Nebbiolo.”

The most important words: respect, purity of expression, complexity, and elegance.

Combine these with a winemaking approach that clearly demonstrates the wisdom that only time and experience can afford a winemaker, and, the results are individual wines of great personality and intrigue. These are the kind of wines that shift you from very good to great.

“He has an open, sunny face and looks at you with confidence because he knows he will never find the words to defend his world but that his wines can defend themselves… He seems an old-fashioned man but he chose to be a winegrower and knows how to observe progress without any conservative reactionary. For each wine produced, depending on the vintage, the right path is chosen without blindly following tradition and without passively following every innovation. He does not love excess” – Luigi Veronelli, I vignaioli storici, volume n.3, testi di Nichi Stefi, Mediolanum Editori Associati, 1988

With a clear transition underway to his daughters Enrica and Elisa it looks like Paolo Scavino will be in good hands for decades to come.

The 2017 Vintage at Paolo Scavino

“There is plenty to like about the 2017 Barolos… In tasting, the 2017s are mid-weight Barolos with the classic structure of Nebbiolo. They are often intensely aromatic. Acids and tannins are prominent in many wines. The fruit profiles are ripe, often distinctly redtoned, but not cooked or over-ripe. Perhaps most importantly, the 2017 Barolos are very true to site, which is always a concern with vintages marked by warm weather. The best 2017s are exceptionally polished, vivid and flat-out delicious”

Galloni

Galloni does an excellent job exploring the 2017 growing season and vintage in his article “2017 Barolo: Here We Go Again…” It’s clear the growers and makers of Piedmont have got their heads around warmer vintages and how to get the most in both the vineyard, and, the winery.

From Scavino

After a fairly rainy autumn, the winter was quite mild, characterized by not very low temperatures, little rainfall and no snowfall.
With rather high average temperatures in the months of January, February and March, the vines had a very early spring awakening. The first green peaks appeared 15 days earlier than in a normal year and the vegetative lengthening was rather rapid.
An unusual event took place from 19th to 24th April. For four consecutive nights there was a sharp drop in temperatures. These spring frosts have seriously damaged some vineyards: the lower part of the Altenasso vineyard, which we call Pontetto, planted with white vines, the Annunziata vineyard, the lower part of the Pernanno vineyard, the Vignolo vineyard and most of the young vine plants used for replacements.
After this anomalous event the temperatures stabilized immediately and, in the vineyards not affected by frost, the vegetative elongation was very rapid.
In May we had 54 mm of rain which fell over 12 days with above average maximum temperatures. Nebbiolo begins flowering around the middle of the month and with maximum temperatures in the last week of May close to 30 °C, fruit setting begins regularly. The closing of the bunch is quickly reached around mid-June, the month in which only 42 mm of rain were recorded with maximum temperatures in the last two weeks ranging between 30 and 35 °C.
In the second week of July, the Dolcetto and Barbera grapes are at 5% veraison while the Nebbiolo begin around mid-month. Finally, on July 29th, a nice thunderstorm arrives and 44 mm of rain are recorded.
In the first week of August the maximum temperatures are record-breaking and there is basically no rainfall throughout the month. In this unusual drought situation, the thinning of the grapes is well targeted.
The harvests of the early ripening varieties begin towards the 25th of August while we started the Nebbiolo harvest on 12th September. At the beginning of September, we had approximately 20 mm of rain. The picking of the grapes ends quite quickly. It is a year that will be remembered for the low rainfall, from 500 to 550 mm depending on the vineyard, despite this the quality of the grapes was excellent and few vineyards showed water stress.
More than ever, in 2017, the choice of harvest was determined by the sampling that we repeat for each vineyard at least 3 times, one week apart. Sampling consists in the collection of a significant number of berries, representative of the entire vineyard, which are analyzed to evaluate the trend of sugars, acidity and pH.
Throughout the summer, despite the lack of water and high temperatures, the vines surprisingly showed no signs of stress. The vegetation remained green and luxuriant until the beginning of September. The energy was made available to the shoots and the clusters had moderate growth, with low yields.
During the second sampling we noticed that the plants began to resist the destemming. To make up for the lack of water in the soil, the plant began to recover it from the berries. So we decided not to wait any longer and to start the harvest, picking the most urgent vines first.
The sudden start of the harvest wanted to avoid not so much a loss of must as the loss of freshness of the fruit and the balance reached up to that point. We did not want to run into an over-ripening of the fruit and an excess of concentration. The acidity at the harvest was rather contained but stable thanks to the absence of rain which, before harvesting, would have brought a lot of potassium into circulation with a consequent drop of acidity.
There are several distinctive characteristics in the 2017s Barolo. It is the charm and elegance that immediately come to mind when tasting this wine. A very fine, floral and fruity nose is followed by a very smooth and caressing mouth where the tannins are perfectly ripe. Despite the dry and sunny summer conditions of this vintage, this wine has retained all of its acid potential, the beginnings of fabulous aging.

Paolo Scavino’s Holdings

Founded in 1921 in Castiglione Falletto, Paolo Scavino under the guidance of Enrico, and, now his daughters, Enrica and Elisa have amassed a superb collection of Cru vineyards in Barolo, representing 20 of 29 hectares with parcels across each of the communes.

These are some of the best sites across Barolo. Click the map to link to an interactive page on Scavino’s website.

95 Points

The 2017 Barolo Carobric is one of the standouts in this range, as it often is. It has an extra dimension of depth and volume that works so well here. Sweet red cherry, cedar, sweet pipe tobacco, anise and brambly notes build as this striking, expressive Barolo shows off its considerable charm. What a pretty wine it is. 2027-2042

Where in the world does the magic happen?

Paolo Scavino

Barolo (sub-region)
La Morra
Castiglione Falletto
Piedmont
Italy

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