Community Tasting Note
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Paul S wrote: 94 points
June 15, 2018 - Bruno Giacosa Tribute Dinner (Casa Tartufo, Singapore): One of a pair of superb 1996s, this was a softer, more feminine counterpoint to the monumental Falletto. The Barbaresco queen to the more powerful Barolo king. The nose had a far more lifted tone on this one, with hint of gingko nut, some lifted spice notes, a soupcon of earth, some dark cherries, and a hint of tar, all draped across a backdrop of sweet floral accents. Lovely stuff. The palate was a study in elegance - beautifully integrated and finely balanced, with filigreed tannins and a delicious juiciness and clarity to its cherry and wild berry flavours - really lovely, gentle, charming stuff. There was no lack of compleixty too, with more savoury notes of meat, spice and earth emerging on the midpalate and into a long, long finish that just lingered and lingered. A delicious wine, almost Burgundian in nature. Drinking very nicely now too, if just lacking the sheer sense of scale and impressiveness of its Barolo brother.
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