2008 Bruno Giacosa Barbera d'Alba Piedmont

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2008 Bruno Giacosa Barbera d'Alba Piedmont

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The iconic wines of Bruno Giacosa are produced without the use of new barriques, opting instead for large casks of French oak. The direction of the winery has increasingly fallen into the hands of Bruno's daughter, Bruna, with the help of enologist Dante Scaglione. The Casa Vinicola Bruno Giacosa wines are produced from purchased fruit and while the Falletto di Bruno Giacosa wines are made from estate vineyards in both Barolo and Barbaresco.

The Giacosa tradition is that of the commerciante (négociant) on the highest level. Bruno learned winemaking from his father and grandfather and in 1961 began purchasing from growers in top sites and bottled the first wines under the Bruno Giacosa name. In 1982 Giacosa bought the Falletto vineyard in Barolo followed by portions of the rated Asili and Rabajá vineyards in Barbaresco in 1996.

Giacosa is a perfectionist and the reputation for the winery's painstaking level of detail and consistency is legendary. Belfrage has described Giacosa's oenological philosophy as "updated traditional". Maceration on skins may last up to thirty days and the wines are aged in 50-hectolitre botti of French oak.

This is textbook Barbera d'Alba: dry and intensely aromatic with explosive Bing cherry fruit and layered spice notes of fennel seed, smoked paprika, cedar, and sweet tobacco. This Barbera shows excellent depth and mid-palate concentration for a vintage that heavily favors Nebbiolo in Piedmont. It's ripe, round, and balanced with broad texture and a remarkably long and complex finish.

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