2019 BAROLO Pressenda Marziano Abbona, Lea & Sandeman

BAROLO

2019 Pressenda Marziano Abbona

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Grapes Nebbiolo
Colour Red
Origin Italy, Piedmont
Village Barolo
ABV 14.5%

So expressive, boldy aromatic, mint, orange, cherries, chocolate, in the mouth the wine sleek with good acid, perfumed, mocha, floral, red fruits, mint and spice. L&S (Apr 2024)

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The 2019 Barolo Riserva Pressenda is a potent, deep wine. Macerated cherry, orange zest, cinnamon, rose petal and dried herbs lend an air of exotic complexity to this firm Barolo. I would prefer to drink this over the next handful of years, as it appears to be reaching its first plateau of maturity. Give this a bit of aeration. Drinking range: 2024 - 2031 Rating: 92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Jan 2025)

This is aromatic with dried red berries, red plums, dried blood orange, nutmeg and moist earth. Medium- to full-bodied. Tannins are firm but ripe and well-integrated, with vivid fruit underneath and a spicy, zesty finish. Needs some time to soften. Try after 2025. Rating: 93 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Jul 2024)

The 2019 Barolo Pressenda unfolds in the glass with dark red cherry, menthol, licorice, rose petal, mint, sweet spice and orange peel. Firm tannins are pretty forbidding at this stage, but that should be less of an issue with bottle age. This opens nicely with time in the glass. Drinking range: 2024 - 2034 Rating: 92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Nov 2023)

Marziano Abbona

The Abbona vineyards were first established in the early part of the 20th Century by Marziano and Celso Abbona (father and son) just outside the town of Dolgliani. Famed for it's Dolcetto, it was Celso who first planted the Bricco Doriolo vineyard in the 1950's and it is from here that the estate's flagship wine 'Papá Celso' derives. Rightly heralded as one of Piedmont's greatest Dolcettos, it is wine of elegance, power and harmony, a wine that can age gracefully for many years.

In the mid-sixties the estate passed to Celso's sons Marziano and Enrico and they worked tirelessly to further establish the reputation of their local Dolcetto and bottled the first wines under the family name. In the early 1980's they added holdings in the prestigious Cru's of Barolo Ravera (Novello) and Bricco Barone and Rinaldi (Monforte d'Alba).

Following the untimely death of Enrico in 1999, Marziano's daughter Mara joined the family business and the estate continued it's acquisitions of Barolo vineyards with plots in Pressenda (Monforte d'Alba) and Cerviano (Novello). It was also a time when Marziano was experimenting with a new white wine, Cinerino, made from Viognier, as he had enjoyed great Condrieu and wanted to see if they could replicate the wines in the hills of Dolgliani. Today it has become something of celebrity and is found in restaurants throughout Piedmont.

2007 commemorated the 30th vintage of the Papá Celso Dolcetto and the following year Marziano's youngest daughter Chiara joined the business.

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