Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Oct.
2006
What a pleasure it was to taste the 2001 Barbaresco
Asili. The nose is expressive, with well-delineated notes of spices, flowers
and tar that meld seamlessly onto an irresistible palate packed with
vibrant layers of sweet ripe fruit with an open, generous personality.
This wine is showing a wonderful sense of inner purity right now and will
be even better in a few years, although its qualities are abundantly apparent
even at this early stage. A great effort. An Azienda Agricola Falletto
di Bruno Giacosa bottling.
95 points
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine
Cellar, Nov/Dec 2007
($200; white label) Fascinating aromas of
game, tobacco, flowers, eucalyptus and wild mint. Sweet, superconcentrated
and fine-grained. Combines an almost extreme sweetness for Giacosa Barbaresco
with terrific acidity and compelling inner-palate perfume. This really reverberates
in the mouth! A wonderfully sweet, silky wine that finishes with a firm
tannic spine. As with the 2004, this is more classic than the 2000, but
the Burgundian subtlety and complexity of that earlier vintage still make
me crazy. 94 points
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