Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva

Red
Italy
Barbaresco
Nebbiolo

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 14
Community notes: 316
Merchant offers: 28

What we know about this wine

Critics: 94/ 1001998 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 94/ 100316 notes, every vintage
Market price: £333per 75 cl1990 · nearest vintage with a price · 1500 ml in-bond trade, January 2016
Drinking window: 2017–2020past its window1964 · nearest vintage with a window

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 9 community ratings (a small sample), read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barbaresco.

Body3.8 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.5 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.2 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · truffle, balsamic, leather, honey, mushroom
Red fruit · raspberry, red cherry, strawberry, red fruit, wild strawberry
Spice · mint, eucalyptus, licorice, menthol
Yeast and lees · cream, oil
Oak · caramel, toffee
Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit

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.

Realised in-bond trades£333–£1,245Shop asks£890–£1,188GBP per 75 cl · 4 priced vintages

1985One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.1990

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.

Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 1989; 98 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price: 1990; £333 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 6 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
1990	£333	96.5	—	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, January 2016
1989	£1,188	98	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1988	£890	89	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1985	£1,245	97	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022

Where to go next

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