2019 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto Vigna Le Rocche

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  3/30/2024 - Sun_Ship Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Delicious, perfumed notes of plump raspberry, black cherry and brambles, with suggestions of rose petals and blood orange. There is power and darker fruited heft, but wrapped in aromatic elegance. The palate is lacey and fine, with waves of black cherry cascading through the mid-palate and a long gum-coating finish. Superb. 95+

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  2/2/2024 - JWS84 Likes this wine:

  I’m not entirely sure what to think about Giacosa. I thought this wine was certainly enjoyable, and it exuded the Giacosa style I’ve become familiar with after tasting with devoted fans, but it didn’t blow me away at $200+. There was very pretty dark red fruit, and this was more elegant than one would expect from a 2019 Serralunga. I think my read on this would be, it doesn’t seem as bad as Galloni suggests these days, but it’s by no means a top Barolo.

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  1/27/2024 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Pronounced and high savory aromatics. Lots and lots of power, but not without delicacy.

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  10/13/2023 - Nanda wrote:

  Single blind, but known to the the 2019 Giacosas by this point. Equally as impressive as what turned out to be the Rabaja side-by-side, though equally as akin to tasting a barrel sample. Perhaps a touch more concentration and burliness here, but this has trademark Giacosa elegance-wrapped power. Promising. 95+ potential in a couple of decades.

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  10/13/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Barbaresco vs. Barolo (Chicago, IL): Served single blind. Like the Rabajà, high-toned red fruit on the nose, with a slight bit of aldehyde and plenty of crystalline, candied cherry, young nebbiolo notes. Not quite as darkly complexioned as the Barbaresco, I swapped the appellations on my guess. Overall, this is a little more delicate and shows a bit less intensity as well. Hard to gauge very much, as these drink like barrel samples, but the quality is undeniable.

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