2004 Bruno Giacosa "Le Rocche del Falletto" Barolo Riserva (1.5L)
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Vinous
Reviewed August 2023The 2004 Barolo Riserva Le Rocche del Falletto di Serralunga rounds out this flight in grand style. What a wine! Rich, textured and expansive, the 2004 Riserva offers up a compelling mélange of dark fruit, tar, rose petals, gravel and licorice, with huge building tannins that wrap it all together. The Riserva is a majestic wine, but it needs at least a few years in bottle to be at its most glorious best. (AG)
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Professional Reviews
98
Int'l Wine Cellar
Full, deep red. Incredible nose combines red fruits, blood orange, minerals, spices and smoked meat. Sappy, silky and extremely intense yet somehow weightless, with a pristine quality to its fruit and mineral flavors. This saturates every millimeter of the palate with flavor, with the extraordinary rising finish going on for two minutes or more. Again, when I free-associated, the first word that came to my mind was Musigny. There's so much going on in this extremely primary and mineral-driven wine that one is hardly aware of the tannins. I think this will make a compelling drink in just two or three years but will evolve positively for a couple of decades. Giacosa considers this to be his best Barolo of the last ten years. (ST) 98+
97
James Suckling
I am enamored with the ripeness, spiciness and mushroom character in this wine. This is a big and powerful wine with incredibly chewy tannins and beefy fruit. Think of a house made of bricks.
96
Wine Spectator
This requires aeration to coax out its fragrant floral, cherry and raspberry fruit aromas. Though supple, focused and elegant, it's very firmly structured, with an underlying mineral streak and a long aftertaste of tobacco. Will be a beauty in about five years. *Collectible* (BS)
Details
| Origin | Barolo, Piedmont, Italy |
|---|---|
| Type/Varietal | Nebbiolo |
| SKU | 1404492 |