Bruno Giacosa
- Red
- Italy
- Barbaresco
- Nebbiolo
- Tracked vintages
- 35
- Community notes
- 339
- Merchant offers
- 41
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002014 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 100339 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £103per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 8 community ratings (a small sample), read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barbaresco.
- Body3.5 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity4.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.9 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · tar, leather, earthy, mushroom, balsamic
- Red fruit · raspberry, red cherry, cranberry, dried strawberry, cherry
- Oak · oak, clove, milk chocolate, tobacco, cedar
- Floral · dried rose, violet, potpourri, perfume, lavender
- Spice · menthol, anise, eucalyptus, licorice, mint
- Black fruit · plum, black cherry, black plum, blueberry, blackberry
Grapes: Nebbiolo. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1970One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 2022unit not stated
- 2020unit not stated
- 201887drinkers£103 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- 201493critic£71 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
- 2011unit not stated
- 200590drinkersunit not stated
- 200489drinkersunit not stated
- 200191drinkersunit not stated
- 200091drinkersunit not stated
- 199992drinkers
- 199888drinkersunit not stated
- 199789drinkers
- 199691drinkersunit not stated
- 199584drinkers
- 199393drinkers
- 199085drinkersunit not stated
- 198992drinkers
- 198893drinkers
- 1984unit not stated
- 198294drinkers
- 197970drinkers
- 197886drinkersunit not stated
- 197689drinkersunit not stated
- 197583drinkers
- 197490drinkers
- 1970£332 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
- 196994drinkers
- 196891drinkers
- 196794drinkersunit not stated
- 196192drinkers
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2014
- 93 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2014
- £71 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
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