1998 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Riserva Santo Stefano di Neive

Quite deep ruby colour with pronounced aromas of dried plum, road tar, earth, prune and touch of rose and damped wood. Dry with medium acidity and alcohol. Quite full bodied with quit high fine grained tannin. On palate it gives over medium flavours of red cherry, plum, clove type dried herb and touch of earth. Medium length of cherry finish. (91)


Tasted on 9 December 2017

一貫的濃郁果感，強烈而複雜的香氣，撲鼻而來。酒體均衡，單寧有點強，酒味在口中仍維持複雜性，香料味也頗強，奇怪的是餘韻比想像中短。整體很不錯，可能這酒狀態有點點差，正常的應該很不錯。

1998 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Santo Stefano di Neive Riserva

A deep ruby colour dry red wine with fairly high intensity noses of redberry, dried plum, dates, toast, mint leaves, rose and nutmeg, deep and attractive. Medium acidity, alcohol and quite full bodied. Quite tannic but fine grained with fairly high intensity flavours. The flavours contain red plum, mint, toast, clove and black tea. Fairly long length with dried red berry finish. (94)


Tasted on 20 May 2016


酒香可以說是深沉吸引，複雜得來又有層次，很好。餘韻也很長，顯示這酒有一定質素。酒味的強度也不錯，複雜性雖然沒有酒香那麼吸引，但亦提供了一定的層次和複雜性，好酒一支，還可陳年，好飲。

1988 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Riserva Santo Stefano di Neive

This wine has quite deep ruby colour. On nose it has pronounced level aromas of earth, dried red plum, toasted herbs, road tar and touch of soy sauce (note below). It is dry with medium acidity, bit souring. Medium alcohol and bodied with medium fine grained tannin. On palate it gives fairly high intensity flavours of red cherry jam, dried plum, earth, stony and dried herbs. Fairly long length with red cherry and mint leaves finish. (94)

Note: The soy sauce aromas is just at barely detectable level which add a touch of oxidized character to the wine without giving any unpleasant aroma.

Tasted on 16 January 2016


 酒很不錯，餘韻可以說有點精彩，果味的餘韻夾著一絲絲的薄荷葉，正。酒在口中表現也很不錯，整枝酒的乾果特色出眾。酒香最後至講的原因是這酒的香氣有一點點氧化的豉油味。我相信只是剛剛有一點點，待酒的跟我說酒開了五六個小時，可能是這原因吧。但由於酒味夠強夠複雜，這點味反而令酒多一個層次，雖然我本人不太喜歡，但我相信喜愛像茅台酒的人會喜愛這醬香味。再者，酒味在口中並沒有絲毫氧化跡象。如果有下一枝的話，相信透氣時間短一點已可解決。所以這豉油香並沒有影響我對這酒的評價。酒很好，現在飲應該是會令人留下印象的好酒。