1989 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Riserva Santo Stefano

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 96.3 points

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  1/16/2024 - Eric wrote: flawed

  M&PD Tasting: Italy (Seattle, WA, USA): Sadly this bottle was a touch oxidized with an overt celery salt component on the nose that would never shake. Some VA and more lifted aromatic do also peek out over time. Such a palate, rose and cherry, incredibly energy and acidity. Yet there is a caramel sweetness that creeps in and shows the oxidation.

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  1/16/2024 - Brolawa wrote:

  MPD dinner at Nell’s. A bit of heat weighing down wine. Hard to judge. When opened, was alive and peppery. Ox took over fairly quickly.

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  8/18/2023 - Venice Al Likes this wine:

  Restaurant note. 3 hour decant, returned to bottle and then 90 minute more decant before dinner course.
  Pale tawny, but surprisingly clear
  Heady spices, tar and smoke, soy, wood spice, floral, roses, cherry, mushroom, Indian spices, clove, dried herbs. Complex wine. Best taste was last taste at dinner’s end after total of 6+ hour decant. Old school Barolo, and Giacosa in particular, once again needs more time than you would think and in the case of older vintages, may be willing to risk in fear of missing the sweet spot.

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  8/6/2023 - Caruso wrote: 93 Points

  Perfectly stored since release, high fill. Cork soaked to 20%. Ruby with broad orange rim. Only hints of cherry fruit left and with tertiary scents and flavors like soy, tobacco, menthol, smoke, almonds and sherry notes. Definitely in his late winter of its life and past his prime. 4/13/18/7. Drink it up!

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  6/8/2023 - Caruso Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Perfectly cellared since release at 12°C. Cork in pristine condition. Limpid ruby in thick layers to orange and amber. Only hints of cherry fruit survived, mainly now soy, pine and spices. On the palate showing more complexity with some more fruit and lovage, chamomille, tannins nearly completely resolved, with the exception of the last glass from bottle. No decant. Definetily in the winter of its life and for my palate even past its prime. Nevertheless it will slowly dull over one decade or more. 5/13/19/8. Drink it up!

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