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2020 Bruno Giacosa "Falletto" Barolo

2020 Bruno Giacosa "Falletto" Barolo

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James Suckling

Reviewed August 2024
The depth and beauty of this are so enticing and attractive that you want to drink the whole bottle. It’s medium- to full-bodied with cherries, strawberries and white truffles. Juicy and precise, with a real presence and complexity as it opens. Best after 2027, but already gorgeous. (JS)

Professional Reviews

94

Wine Spectator

Review Date: 12/2024
Strawberry, cherry, rose, eucalyptus and stony mineral flavors are framed by dense, fine-grained tannins in this graceful, firmly structured red. Elegant and very Burgundy in profile, with a vibrant character and excellent length. (BS)

JR

Jancis Robinson

Review Date: 11/2023
A monopole in Serralunga acquired in the early 1980s (Asili one year later). An amphitheatre that faces south to south-west. The Falletto bottling comes from 20- to 40-year-old vines in the bottom part. 10,000 bottles made. Bottled July 2023. To be released February 2024. Transparent crimson. Lightly pungent again – like Rabajà 2020 – plus lightly floral. Sweet and rich and very flattering. Long and by no means simple. More fruit than tannin at this early stage. (JR) 18/20

Notes

This 2020 Falletto Barolo comes from Bruno Giacosa's southwest-facing Nebbiolo vines in Serralunga d'Alba. Its exact-vintage technical sheet records 25 days of fermentation and maceration in steel, followed by 32 months in French oak and six months in bottle. Wine Spectator finds a dense, fine-grained tannic frame around cherry, strawberry and rose, with a mineral accent and vibrant length. Jancis Robinson's earlier assessment emphasizes the wine's generous fruit and richness, with the fruit more prominent than the tannin at that stage.

Details

TypeRed Wine
VarietalNebbiolo
OriginBarolo, Piedmont, Italy
Bottle Size750 mL
SKU1921546
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