1999 Barolo
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Tasting notes
Medium red. Giacosa's 1999 Barolo is a great introduction to the vintage. It offers an open, sweet nose of roses, spices, menthol, minerals, cocoa and smoke followed by a core of ripe cherry fruit on a medium-bodied frame with excellent length, good balance, and firm tannins that will require a few years in the bottle to soften. More ethereal and less fruit-driven than the sweeter 2000, it is great effort at the normale level. An Azienda Agricola Falletto di Bruno Giacosa bottling.
Critic scores
Antonio Galloni, 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.