Wine Description
Made from 100% Nebbiolo grown in the sandy and clayey Santo Stefano Vineyard. This renowned wine is aged two years in oak followed by an additional 12 months in bottle prior to release from the winery.
Tasting Notes
This gorgeous wine offers a rich bouquet of violets, wild cherries, ripe currants, licorice, and cinnamon. In the mouth, it is ripe, structured, and fragrant, with complex flavors of dried fruit, tobacco and leather. The firm acidity balances the round and full body. This is a substantial wine with ripe and harmonious tannins leading to a long, rich finish. Recommended with roasted and grilled meats, casseroles, polenta with sausages and mushrooms. Perfect with aged cheeses. A classic, impressive Barbaresco.
Reviews
Wine Advocate - Issue #185/ October 2009
Piedmont Comes of Age
"[I]s a gorgeous wine that combines element of ripeness, structure and the intense spiciness that makes the best wines from the Santo Stefano vineyard so compelling. Floral, high-toned notes appear on the silky finish, rounding out this highly promising wine. Gorgeous textural elegance and balance are the hallmarks of the 2007 Santo Stefano.”
95 points
Decanter - April 2008
Italy's 50 Greatest Ever Wines
"Dubbed the ‘genius of Neive’, Bruno Giacosa is renowned for his extraordinary palate and his unsurpassed knowledge of the Langhe’s best vineyards. One of Giacosa’s greatest wines, Barbaresco from the Santo Stefano cru has the power, depth and complexity usually only found in the greatest Barolos thanks to the vineyard’s perfect southern exposure and limestone/ clay soils, and to Giacosa’s celebrated gift for winemaking. According to Isao Miyajima, the wine is ‘complex, enveloping and authentic with incredibly refined tannins... it is a great expression of a great vineyard.'"
#5 Greatest Ever Wine
