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![Dolcetto d'Alba DOC 2018]()
Dolcetto d’Alba DOC 2018
The Dolcetto d'Alba shows an excellent mixture of almonds, sour cherries and violets. Light, elegant and fruity on the palate with a nice persistence. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Dolcetto
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: stainless steel
- Development: stainless steel tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 28,50 g/l
- Total Acid: 5,20 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 1,40 g/l
- Sulfite: 60 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,58
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2022+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Dolcetto d’Alba “Falletto” DOC 2018
The Dolcetto d'Alba Falletto from the Serralunga near Giacosa's excellent Barolo vineyards is racy. Its strong character, the dark, rich and mature expression, firmly wrapped in the fruit - a very special wine with great potential. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2017 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Dolcetto
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Arneis Roero DOCG 2018
The pale yellow Roero Arneis, mirrored in greenish reflections, has a charming floral nose, followed by a fresh and pure taste with hints of peach and banana. Roero Arneis is also called Barolo Bianco, which is fully true for this excellent white from Neive's noble forge. SUPERIORE.DE
"The 2018 Roero Arneis is a fragrant and linear white wine with plenty of spicy lemon, tangerine and crushed stone aromas. The 2017 vintage of this wine (from a hotter vintage) showed more tropical fruit, whereas this cooler vintage offers more citrus and mineral notes. I am partial to this vintage because of those tangy flavors and the wine's precisely linear quality. However, this wine is set to flesh out and gain in volume after the summer because Arneis starts to show its best results in September following the harvest." Robert Parker
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Arneis
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: stainless steel
- Development: stainless steel tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 20,20 g/l
- Total Acid: 5,45 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 1,85 g/l
- Sulfite: 98 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,33
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2023+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Barbera d’Alba DOC 2017
Graceful the ruby red Barbera d'Alba with the fine fruit scent. The fully structured taste closes persistently with light acid reader, which forms a good contrast to the body. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2016 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Barbera
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 9 months wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 29,00 g/l
- Total Acid: 6,00 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 1,50 g/l
- Sulfite: 75 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,35
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Food Recommendations: cold and warm meat dishes
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Nebbiolo d’Alba DOC 2016
Bruno Giacosas Nebbiolo is one of the best representatives of its kind and offers a fine scent of red cherries, flowers and spices. Very appealing and delicate on the palate, beautiful varietal character and good balance. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: big wooden barrel
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 28,50 g/l
- Total Acid: 5,55 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,60 g/l
- Sulfite: 80 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,64
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2023+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Spumante Metodo Tradizionale 2015 Extra Brut
This rare sparkling wine full of character and made from 100 percent Pinot Nero is a real treat. In the bouquet a hint of flowers and alpine herbs, the taste fine fruity and with an elegant bitter note and very complex finish. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Pinot Nero
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 30 months on the yeast
- Development: Metodo Classico/Bottle fermentation
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Barbera d’Alba “Falletto” DOC 2017
Rich ruby, in the nose very typical of sour cherries, red berries and spices. Light tannin on the palate, pithy, very nice fruit, firm and substantial. A Barbera for connoisseurs! SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2016 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Barbera
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2027
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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![Spumante Metodo Tradizionale Rosé 2013 Extra Brut]()
Spumante Metodo Tradizionale Rosé 2013 Extra Brut
A pithy vintage sparkling wine made of 100% Pinot Nero in elegant old pink. Aromatic scent of cranberry, peach and a hint of rose hip. Excellent structure, harmonious and long with creamy texture. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Pinot Nero
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: Stainless steel, 24 months on the yeast
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: stainless steel tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 21,00 g/l
- Total Acid: 5,95 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 3,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 65 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,25
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2022+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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“Vigna Valmaggiore” Nebbiolo d’Alba DOC 2017
Intense ruby red with garnet shimmer. Fragrant, very delicate bouquet with pleasantly fruity features of cherries, wild berries and spices - with a delicate hint of liquorice. The full and harmonious taste, just right in tannin content, is persistent and flattering and makes this Nebbiolo a "little Barolo" and unique wine. SUPERIORE.DE
"The 2017 Nebbiolo d'Alba Vigna Valmaggiore hails from an always over-performing site in Roero that is distinguished by floral notes and bright berry intensity. This hot vintage is more accessible and near term (compared to 2016); however, it offers plenty of that pretty floral intensity that makes Valmaggiore so special." Robert Parker
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months large barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2026+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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Spumante Metodo Tradizionale 2013 Extra Brut · MAGNUM
This rare sparkling wine full of character and made from 100 percent Pinot Nero is a real treat. In the bouquet a hint of flowers and alpine herbs, the taste fine fruity and with an elegant bitter note and very complex finish. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Pinot Nero
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 30 months on the yeast
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: Metodo Classico/Bottle fermentation
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2026+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned05200313 · 1,5 l · 43,27 €/l · Price incl. VAT, excl. Excise Tax & Shipping< 24 units available
![Spumante Metodo Tradizionale 2011 Extra Brut<br>MAGNUM]()
Spumante Metodo Tradizionale 2011 Extra Brut · MAGNUM
This rare sparkling wine full of character and made from 100 percent Pinot Nero is a real treat. In the bouquet a hint of flowers and alpine herbs, the taste fine fruity and with an elegant bitter note and very complex finish. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Pinot Nero
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 30 months on the yeast
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: Metodo Classico/Bottle fermentation
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned05200311 · 1,5 l · 43,27 €/l · Price incl. VAT, excl. Excise Tax & Shipping3 units available
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Barbaresco “Falletto” DOCG 2014
Red fruits, leather, undergrowth, spices and dried flowers, all' these are the scents of the ruby garnet red Barbaresco Falletto, which comes from the Asili and Rabajà vineyards in 2014, as they were not vinified separately. Balsamic and fruity notes can be found in its full flavour and long finish. A wine of the extra class, which brings out the best in itself with the time surely still. SUPERIORE.DE
"Silky and elegant, exhibiting cherry, strawberry, rose and subtle white pepper aromas and flavors. Tobacco and iron details emerge on the finish." Wine Spectator
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 18 months big oak barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2030
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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About the winemakers
Bruno GiacosaPiedmont
The traditionalist. This is how Bruno Giacosa was always respectfully called, because he rejected the winemaking of Barbaresco and Barolo in barriques and always aged his wines in large wooden barrels. Even if the name was actually a little unfair, because Bruno Giacosa was always open to new methods and kept in touch with the "modernists like Angelo Gaja, Elio Altare and the other "Barolo-Boys". Without him, the meteoric rise of the Piedmont region would hardly have been possible.
Already at the age of fifteen he entered the business of his grandfather and became a "Commerciante", comparable to a Négociant éleveur in France. The Giacosas did not have their own vineyards, but bought the grapes of friendly winegrowers and expanded them. To get the best out of the grapes has always been his strength. Already at the beginning of the 1960s. "Top drops only from peak years" was the credo. In 1964 it was such a top vintage, and Bruno Giacosa was the first to bottle a single vineyard Barbaresco from the Santa Stefano vineyard in his home town of Neive. This was a revolution at the time and provided for more discussion than maturing in barriques - and soon found many imitators.
It was not until 1982 that Bruno Giacosa was able to acquire his first vineyard, one of the best, Falletto di Serralunga, in the Barolo area. In 1996, a few small plots in two other top locations followed: Asili and Rabajá, which (together with Martinenga) are described by many experts as the best crus in Barbaresco.
The rest is wine history. Giacosa's wines take a long time to mature. He called his winemaking "modern traditional", which meant a maceration of about one month, compared to often more than 50 days in earlier times. Matured in 5,000 litre barrels, he preferred French oak barrels to traditional Slavonian barrels. And he always allowed the wines to ripen longer than his colleagues and usually only came onto the market 2-3 years later.
If you are impatient and open Giacosa's wines too early, you will usually experience them closed and inaccessible. But if you are patient and allow the wines to mature in the cellar, you can enjoy elegant, complex, unique Barolo and Barbaresco. They are then really an experience that you can remember for a long time. In the meantime, Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Roero Arneis are all great ways to pass the time. Or treat yourself to the grandiose speciality of the house, the rare 100% Pinot Nero Spumante in classic bottle fermentation.
At the beginning of the 2000s, daughter Bruna Giacosa took over the management of the winery, which was actually called Azienda Agricola Falletto, and was also able to win back her father's long-time oenologist and companion Dante Scaglione. Even after the death of the old master Bruno Giacosa in 2018, the continuity and style of the "modern" traditionalist is assured. SUPERIORE.DE
Facts
- Year of foundation: 1890 / own sites since 1982
- Owner: Bruna Giacosa
- Oenologist: Dante Scaglione
- Annual production: approx. 400,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 20 hectares
- Conventional cultivation