Community Tasting Notes 7

• joshabramson Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 20, 2024 - Soft, aromatic and pretty. Fully mature and probably not improving from here. Very solid, but not drinking at quite the same level as many of the mid/late 90s vintages of white label giacosa I've had in recent years.

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• SteveHyde Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 29, 2020 - My only bottle of this wine, opened at a great moment in its aging curve. It's all there, and has the classic Giacosa profile of dense fruit, spice, herbs, combined with the tertiary notes of smoke and leather. There's a reason we like Giacosa so much.

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• MauriceE wrote:

  May 25, 2019 - Happily a very good bottle. Opened about 1 hour before drinking, no decant. I wish I had, because the wine had a lot of residu and would probably have benefited from a little more air. Nevertheless, we enjoyed it a lot, with Irene from Montemercurio, birthyear 1989. Yes, this is a very good wine.

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• kfinsrud wrote: 95 points

  September 15, 2014 - Decanted 2 hours. IN fill. Sound cork. Light color, brick orange rim. Medium+ intense aromas of tobacco, leather, dried roses and sweet fruit. Red fruit driven palate with a most seductive sweetness that only a begining mature wine can show. Melted down tannins smooths this one out nicely with a brilliant long finish with some earthy minerals at the end. Not the most complex or concentrated vineyard from Giacosa, but in this vintage it really shines! Can be kept longer if you prefer more tertiary notes.

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• Scheper wrote: 92 points

  March 18, 2007 - A Fully mature Barbaresco.
  Needs quite some air to open up but then....
  a superripe wine!
  a nose of flowers, dried flowers, dark fruit and a little madeira. barnyard
  great fruit, ripe dark fruit. nice acidity to give the wine its freshness. soft tannins. a beautiful wine that seems older than it is. its color is amber and bricky at the rim.
  
  a real treat! No need to wait any longer, but it will keep this quality for 5-10 years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Bruno Giacosa
• Varietal Nebbiolo
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Gallina di Neive
• Country Italy
• Region Piedmont
• SubRegion Langhe
• Appellation Barbaresco

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• In Cellars 28 (52%)
• Consumed 26 (48%)

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