Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Santo Stefano other_regions_italy with deeply pitched sweet cream

with deeply pitched sweet cream and butter tones and a slow-to-unfold singed pineapple flavor

This is classic Clos du Roi with the hallmark intense sauvage character that suffuses this wine from head to toe

08 ha mix of younger and older vines that average about 50+ years of age)

This old school effort is running out of fruit faster than the structure is resolving so I would suggest drinking up

spice-tinged dark berries and pungent flowers are sharpened by sneaky mineral and spice flourishes

Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Santo Stefano other_regions_italy with deeply pitched sweet creamHappily, the 2011 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Albesani Vigna Santo Stefano had no such issues, and confirmed itself as a wine of early appeal loaded with easy charm. Its drinking beautifully right now, a refined and silky quaff redolent of ripe red cherry and rose petal aromas and flavors, though this specific bottle seemed a little more evolved compared to other bottles of this wine I have tried recently. Ian D'Agata