Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili, 2001 Freisa and Friends 18 months elevage on lees

18 months elevage on lees

Curtimenta is the Portuguese word for skin contact

Full-bodied with black fruit

and toasted exotic spice

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Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili, 2001 Freisa and Friends 18 months elevage on leesBruno Giacosa's Asili the most perfumed cru in Barbaresco, from one of Piedmont's great classical vintages, twenty four years on. 2001 was Bruno still at the helm, and the wine carries the unmistakable Giacosa signature: silken texture, inner sweetness, a sense of weightless precision that few producers ever match. Asili sits on the southwest facing slope of Barbaresco village and gives wines built on floral lift rather than brute power and Giacosa's