1982 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Riserva Santo Stefano

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  12/3/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points

  Seventeenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Hughes House - Chicago IL): In Giacosa flight. Don't get me wrong... I enjoyed this wine. It had everything you except from aged Nebbiolo, clearly on the advanced side, not showing the bright vibrancy a small percentage of such bottles manage to retain. Others enjoyed this much more than I did.

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  11/19/2022 - johnh1001 wrote: 97 Points

  Absolutely fabulous bottle. Incredible purity, freshness and delineated flavors. While this was very mature, it felt so youthful and was the definition of power without weight. Everything you want from a 40 year old Barbaresco.

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  8/6/2022 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points

  A small gathering at Bryan's (Bryan's place): Fully mature nose displaying sweet pure red fruit, strawberry, cherry, rose, a hint of raisin, tar, sap, porcini, spicy spices and iron. Perfectly integrated palate, nicely layered subtle sweet red fruit, excellent detail, balance and precision, bright acidity, strong iron mineral, and a seamless long subtle sweet red fruit driven finish with iron at the end. This is still drinking beautifully!

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  2/15/2019 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The ‘82 Santo Stefano was remarkable fresh and youthful, showing dried strawberry, with dusty Giscosa spice, minerals and floral undergrowth. The longer it spent in the case, the richer it seemed to become, showing soft, plush textures on the palate, offset by tart cherry and a fresh wave of brisk acids. The finish was long and feminine, displaying tart berries contrasting sweet spice and earthy minerals lingering on. Simply gorgeous.

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  1/12/2019 - jamesdlandis Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This was drunk at the same dinner, two days ago, at which was served (to accompany a leg of lamb, boneless rolled in a mixture of sausage and prosciutto and herbs, covered in dough and baked, with Marsala wine drizzled in throughout baking) the Giacosa 1971 Arione di Serralunga d'Alba Barolo, reported on yesterday.
  
  This different expression of the Nebbiolo grape also showed its relative youthfulness (1982/1971) in being richer and more fragrant than the Barolo. This wine had not been decanted; the older two were.
  
  By the way, a 1990 Rinaldi Barolo (non-cru denominated), also opened, proved no match for these two more ambitious Giacosa wines.
  
  A 1977 Graham's Port (what was left in a decanter from New Year's Eve, almost two weeks before) proved the equal of any of these wines. Which is praise more of the Nebbioli than of the (stupendous but, even from half bottles, still maturing) Port.
  
  Neither of these Nebbioli seemed quite the equal of a 1982 Mascarello Monprivato Barolo, but that was last drunk severals years ago and thus memory may be playing, with its display of bygone pleasure, its usual trick here.
  
  In any case, we should all be so lucky to taste such wines again, or even once.

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