1974 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  11/2/2019 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points

  White Truffles & Nebbiolo (Chez Nanda): Double decanted ~9 hours prior to serving. Smoky and red cherries in the nose. The palate is still fruit forward and juicy while also showing plenty of nuanced and complexity. Has your typical Giacosa elegance. Terrific.

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  11/2/2019 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Nebbiolos, white truffles, Volume IV (Chicago, IL): The "lowly" Barbaresco, served next to the 1979 Gallina, doesn't have quite the same purity of fruit. It is nevertheless a fairly impressive wine, showing a nice ripeness to the fruit, and a bit of a wispier, lighter style than the 1974 Gaja as well. The acidity is a little prominent here, but overall the wine is in good balance. Like the Gaja, this is a fully resolved wine, with very little upside from further aging.

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  5/19/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  The wine was stunning, probably the best Barbaresco I have had. It started with a perfume of white truffle and slowly built in the glass. It was fine and delicate, all about perfume and offered whiffs of freshly tilled earth, red fruits, decaying roses, undergrowth and sweet meats. It was so sensual in the mouth with a lacy texture and myriad of sweet and savoury flavours. It finished with minerally acidity and the aroma that wafted around the gums once swallowed was complex and just so perfumed and engaging.

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  4/20/2014 - kliver Likes this wine: 94 Points

  2 hour decant, drank over subsequent 2 hours. Bright red color, with some bricking. Old leather, blackberry and caramel on the nose. Leather, raspberry, earth and tobacco on the pallet. Long finish with some crushed rock notes and acidity still going strong. Wine is drinking great right now, but still has time left.

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