2011 Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore
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Tasting notes
(aged for one year in oak and bottled in December of 2012): Medium red. Enticing candied perfume to the high-toned aromas of cherry liqueur and orange zest. Fine-grained, sexy and elegant, with penetrating but harmonious acidity giving the wine excellent cut and drawing out its back end. With its serious tannic clout this is hardly an easy-drinking nebbiolo, but it fills the retronasal passages with rose and licorice. Francesco Versio says that 2011 produced warm wines and that this bottling will be ready early.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
About the producer
Bruno Giacosa – now run by daughter Bruna – is a cult Nebbiolo producer, that has consistently made some of the best single-vineyard Barbaresco and Barolo from the 1960s onwards. The“red-label” Riservas are some of the finest and most collectable wines in Italy.