2011 Giacosa Fratelli Barbaresco Basarin Vigna Gianmaté

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  2/16/2016 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  Macerated with the skins for approximately 35 days. Aged in French oak barriques (+50% new, less than 50% used).
  
  Beautiful, quite deep dark cherry red color with a hint of developed brick-orange hue towards the rim. Rich and powerful nose with open and quite dark-toned aromas of sweet black cherries, sweet toasty oak spice, some juicy dark berries, a little bit of sour cherries and a hint of sweet pipe tobacco. The wine is ripe, full-bodied and quite sweet-toned on the palate with flavors of very ripe cherries, quite pronounced toasty oak spice, some sweet dark berries, a little bit of mocha, light plummy tones and a hint of licorice root. As expected of a single-vineyard Barbaresco, the wine feels pretty tightly-knit and very structured with its moderately high acidity and quite stern, tightly-knit and grippy tannins. The finish is long, quite warm and rather dark-toned with brooding flavors of toasty oak spice, ripe black cherries, some tannic bitterness, a little bit of cocoa oak, light sappy herbal tones and a hint of earthy spice. The youthful, unresolved tannins make the wine finish on a firm, grippy note.
  
  A very modern, brooding and heavily oaky monster-Barbaresco that shows the powerful structure the best examples of Nebbiolo can attain. Stylistically this hulking, muscular Nebbiolo feels more like a Barolo than Barbaresco, but that might be because the heavy-handed oaking here masks away the finesse of Nebbiolo quite effectively. Overall the wine feels like it is built to last and I heartily recommend to give the wine at least another 10 years to tone down its tannins and integrate its oak better with the fruit. Impressive as a wine, but not really my favorite style of Barbaresco.

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