Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Santo Stefano Vintage:2001 Surprisingly there is a touch

Surprisingly there is a touch of menthol on the still youthfully fresh and bright nose of mostly red berry fruit

This was also relatively reduced and impossible to evaluate

and coffee bean

cedar and sweet pipe tobacco gradually open up in a wine that is more giving on the palate than it is in its aromatics

Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Santo Stefano Vintage:2001 Surprisingly there is a touchHappily, 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