Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili, 2001 Freisa and Friends and toasted exotic spice

and toasted exotic spice

promoting the "new" drier Rheingau style and reintroducing vineyard names and designations

harvested late like 2001 and 2004 and built for exactly this kind of patience

yields this concentrated expression of Pinot Noir from the 2019 vintage

18 months elevage on lees

Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili, 2001 Freisa and Friends and toasted exotic spiceBruno Giacosa's Asili the most perfumed cru in Barbaresco, from one of Piedmont's great classical vintages, twenty four years on. 2001 was Bruno still at the helm, and the wine carries the unmistakable Giacosa signature: silken texture, inner sweetness, a sense of weightless precision that few producers ever match. Asili sits on the southwest facing slope of Barbaresco village and gives wines built on floral lift rather than brute power and Giacosa's