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Bruno Giacosa Barbera d’Alba

Tracked vintages
20
Community notes
376
Merchant offers
102

What we know about this wine

Critics
UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
Real drinkers
83/ 100376 notes, every vintage
Market price
£22per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
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 152 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barbera.

Body3.5 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.9 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin2.2 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5
DrySweet
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
  • Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black cherry, blueberry, black fruit
  • Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, minerals
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, anise, cinnamon, mint
  • Floral · violet, lilac, iris, lavender, orange blossom

Grapes: Barbera. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

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.

Every score below is a community score.

  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
1993
93 / 100 from drinkers
Lowest price
2019
£15 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.

Barbera d’Alba monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£202021£222019£15

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Barbera d’Alba 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
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Barbera d’Alba monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2021£22——per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
2019£15——per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022

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