1996 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d'Alba

Community Tasting Notes (56) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  3/27/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed

  Keith's Italian Wine Dinner (Osteria Langhe - Chicago IL): Certainly an off bottle, seemed slightly corked

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  2/23/2024 - Fftjr Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Beautiful nose. Color beginning to fade. Pale red. Very well balanced. Drinking well. Likely has a few years left.

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  12/3/2023 - fadincvaros wrote: 88 Points

  tappo e livello erano ok, ma l’eleganza di Giacosa manca completamente, bottiglia chiaramente non a posto, acidità sbilanciata, troppo rusticità in bocca e al naso. Peccato

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  11/18/2023 - Nanda wrote: 95 Points

  An outstanding white label that is now in a peak window that should last for a decade or two. Pristine, pure cherry fruit with so much floral and road tar complexity. Suave but still noteworthy tannins are well-integrated. An outstanding vintage for Giacosa.

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  11/18/2023 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  Nebbiolos, white truffles, Volume VIII (Chicago, IL): #3795. Opened at 7am, double decanted at 4pm. Delicate, crystalline red fruit the way 1996 Giacosa ought to be. Very structured but the non-Riserva status of this actually makes it a little more approachable here. It's certainly quite tannic still, but the fruit profile is such a contrast to the slightly muddier 1997s alongside. I've always been a big fan of the 1996s, and this bottle is yet another case in point.

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