1998 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Gallina di Neive

Community Tasting Notes (66) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  3/14/2024 - Musinus wrote: 91 Points

  Dark ruby just turning garnet. Sweet scents of grilled strawberries, geranium, violets, cola and cinnamon. With further aeration, floral character becomes much more pronounced and a quite pleasing sensuous cherry liqueur aroma is evident. Mature yet sweet palate of cherries, licorice and cola. A tad austere on the length.

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  9/26/2022 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Slightly dusty nose with floral notes of violets and roses, cherries, chocolate, and strawberries. The palate seems a bit lighter than the nose with good acidity, more red fruit, cherries, despite the powerful tannins. Nice finish. A good, but not great Giacosa.

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  10/5/2019 - Nico P. Likes this wine:

  14%. Purchased from Garagiste in 2006. Stored temperature controlled since since delivery in 2007. Pale orange tinted red. Initially reductive, nice old socks smell. Dried flowers, thyme oregano basil seasoning mix. With more air, raisins, strawberry jam, dried roses, macopa fruit. Good tartness, fully resolved tannins, 12+ sec finish. Fruit reached its most elegant and ethereal on the third tasting. Went well with fettuccine in a tartufo cream sauce.

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  1/5/2019 - cct wrote: 92 Points

  double decanted for sediment then drunk over 4 hours.
  
  Fully mature yet not tired. The nose is more savory and autumnal for nebbiolo. Tar, rose petals, iron, leather, bouillon, nettles, decaying leaves, and some balsamic notes. It's mid weighted for nebbiolo, with decent sap, outstanding balance and a sense of harmony. More savory on the palate again with the florals and perfume coming together with the savory and more mature flavors. This wine has never been barn burner by Giacosa standards, but this is otherwise a lovely, well balanced, understated, and harmonious bottle of wine. There is an effortlessness and harmony to it. Not everything has to be full scale or profound. It has good persistence and finishes with nice balsamic tones. For me it is drinking at peak and unlikely to improve.

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  6/29/2018 - portman63 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Came across a bit mature on the nose at first. Has the violets, cherry and leather throughout. At the end, it was a very nice wine and the succulent mouthfeel that I often find in a Giacosa wine, it just seemed more mature than I would expect, but it did have the crystalline finish that takes these wines from very good to great experiences.

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