1999 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Asili

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  3/29/2023 - Sotto325 wrote: 95 Points

  As close to a perfect Barbaresci experience as one can have. Yes, there are greater vintages in which the complexity and depth could be even more awe-inspiring, but this bottle, now, established, or re-established, the base ground, supporting why people love nebbiolo with age. Complete immersion into the dark, deep soil, redolent with black cherry, tar, smoke, aged oaky notes, a scent of forest floor and sun in the trees, all combining with a slightly smoky finish that persisted just as it should. Drink now with little or no decant needed.

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  3/28/2023 - kenv Likes this wine: 97 Points

  NV Bruno Giacosa Asili and Rabają (La Brasserie, NYC): [Double-decanted around 11am.] Gorgeous perfume of flowers and black fruit. Fills the mouth and explodes with complex fruit. Powerful and rich, but with so much balance and elegance. Another wow from me. My #2 WOTN.

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  2/21/2023 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  Knights of Alba (KOA) BYO Barbaresco Dinner (Legacy Records): A bit madeirized but you can tell that there’s a. Lot of good things happening behind that and it’s not completely overpowering.

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  12/15/2021 - Erik R. wrote:

  Put me in the pleasantly surprised camp. Lovely tobacco, dried rose, sweet spice, maybe some black tea. dominated by a sweet cherry fruit, sweet onion jam, perhaps just a touch stewed, roses, violets, really nice balance all and all. firm, juicy, mostly resolved tannins. Loved this restrained beaut.

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  10/18/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Wine Workshop: White Label Giacosa and White Truffles (Locanda Verde): Very young but it's pretty and floral and red fruits and maybe a bit of rose and some potpourri and just lovely. Perhaps warmer vintage has ticked down the acid a touch, but still quite strong. Very enjoyable. Generally less preferred to the Rabaja that was served next to it which surprised me a bit although maybe reacting to vintages.

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