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Red
1988 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Villero di Castiglione Falletto
Nebbiolo
- Italy
- Piedmont
- Langhe
- Barolo
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Community Tasting Notes 10
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wberlin Likes this wine: 95 points
December 7, 2023 - From a restaurant library list, classic tar and dried rose, pleasantly tart cherry notes. Big boded and warm up front, but not to a fault. Aged but not old. I can't imagine this has anywhere more to go, not much in the way of tannin, but a delicious wine with cauliflower in a lemon cream sauce and mushroom pasta.
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MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
October 18, 2021 - Wine Workshop: White Label Giacosa and White Truffles (Locanda Verde): One of my favorites of the tasting. Very fresh and pretty and a bit of potpourri and more rose hips and just a hinting that there might be fruit there. In a lovely place and one of the ones that I kept to go back to and was drinking well from beginning to end.
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MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
June 20, 2018 - Acker Auction - June 2018 (Laduree NYC W Broadway): Next to the '89. This was really nice. Felt like it was in a good spot. Good balance between the spice cabinet and red fruits. Only thing was the end felt a bit tired. But otherwise, very good.
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Burgundy Al wrote: 92 points
October 7, 2014 - (Mostly) Barolo Dinner (Osteria Langhe - Chicago IL): Open 5 hours before serving. While the 1983 in the next glass was elegant and textured, this 1988 was meaty, powerful, firm and even backward. Kept getting better with more air. Lots of firm fruit, moderate ripeness throughout.
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fclarity wrote: 95 points
April 10, 2012 - Purchased from a restaurant (Monettes) library stock, this bottle looked perfect with a low neck fill. The wine looked deeper colored than I would have expected with a deep red center and red/orange rims. This wine was impressive right out of the gate but went through the typical Barolo phases. I decanted it 10 hours before dinner and that turned out to be perfect.
The initial impression was typical Barolo but, as we swirled the wine in the glass, it morphed into something truly unique. The high- intensity nose featured dried black cherries, leather, roses, minerals, and some brown spices.
In the mouth, it was medium bodied with ripe fruit and soft round tannin. However, after hour 10 and extensive swirling, this wine added an extra dimension of sweet ripeness almost never found in Barolo. The texture was like a Burgundy on steroids (but with a totally different flavor profile).
A top notch wine that will easily age for decades. Bruno is the man!
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 1988
- Type Red
- Producer Bruno Giacosa
- Varietal Nebbiolo
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Villero di Castiglione Falletto
- Country Italy
- Region Piedmont
- SubRegion Langhe
- Appellation Barolo
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 30 (45%)
- Consumed 36 (55%)
Food Pairing
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Who Likes This Wine
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- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarolo