Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Santo Stefano Vintage:2008 This is over 14% alcohol

This is over 14% alcohol with no chaptalization

This is a wonderfully impressive wine that has the touch of youthful austerity that Champans always seems to display

scattered all over Chambolle)

quince and wild honey

it needs another 5 years or so in the cellar

Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Santo Stefano Vintage:2008 This is over 14% alcoholHappily, the 2011 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Albesani Vigna Santo Stefano had no such issues, and confirmed itself as a wine of early appeal loaded with easy charm. Its drinking beautifully right now, a refined and silky quaff redolent of ripe red cherry and rose petal aromas and flavors, though this specific bottle seemed a little more evolved compared to other bottles of this wine I have tried recently. Ian D'Agata