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Red
1985 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Villero di Castiglione Falletto
Nebbiolo
- Italy
- Piedmont
- Langhe
- Barolo
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Community Tasting Notes 17
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lepetitchateau wrote: 89 points
July 22, 2023 - Returned to this 10 years after last trying a bottle - not a good example, showed turbitybdespitw not having moved for years. Odd
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Rani wrote: flawed
May 11, 2022 - Brown and coffee notes, this bottle is shot.
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BillBell73 Likes this wine:
December 25, 2020 - Distressingly brown upon the first pour but there’s still a luminous core the color of a saignee rose surrounded by substantial bricking. This bottle is quite mature and on the downward slope with heaps of VA, slightly maderized fruit, and a palate dominated by tertiary and autumnal flavors. It’s good, and probably worth the price I paid for it back in what now seem to be the good old days of baroli pricing, but at the current prices I’d think twice before rolling the dice here as this bottle was not an excellent or transcendent nebbiolo.
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William Kelley Likes this wine: 93 points
June 25, 2020 - This bottle of Giacosa's 1985 1985 Barolo Villero di Castiglione Falletto was fully mature, unfurling in the decanter and glass to deliver an expressive nose of fennel seed, dried cherries, strawberries, pipe tobacco and licorice. Medium to full-bodied, melting and enveloping, with tangy acids and an ample core of sweet fruit, it's sunny and generous in personality.
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dcwino wrote: 94 points
February 9, 2020 - Sommelier Appreciation Dinner 2020 (The Brown Residence): Warm, round and soft red cherry fruit, a hint of cedar, still a hint of tannins at the end. A classic Giacosa. The warmth and red fruit remind me the 85 Burgundy a bit. A classic Giacosa style and clearly expression the warm vintage.
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By John Gilman
Jan/Feb 2018, Issue #73, In a Piemonte State of Mind Another Round of Barolo, Barbaresco & Friends(Barolo “Villero di Castiglione Falletto”- Bruno Giacosa) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Mar/Apr 2017, Issue #68, Another Nod To the Maestro of Piemonte Bruno Giacosa In the Autumn Of a Great Career(Barolo “Villero di Castiglione Falletto”- Bruno Giacosa) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Jan/Feb 2007, Issue #7, The Brilliant Barbarescos and Barolos of Bruno Giacosa(Bruno Giacosa Barolo “Villero”) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1985
- 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 126 (73%)
- Consumed 47 (27%)
Food Pairing
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- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarolo