Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Barolo Riserva, Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo

Giacomo Borgogno & Figli

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91 /100
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2006 Other 91/100
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Taster #9282 · Jan 21, 2025
93/100
Fleshy and round. Drinking beautifully. Popped and poured. Love it.
2006 vintage
Taster #2634 · Dec 3, 2024
93/100
Still drinking so young. Great wine.
2006 vintage
Taster #9287 · Mar 28, 2024
90/100
Just a little over the hill. Could have been my storage too. The cork broke.
2006 vintage
Taster #2634 · Mar 8, 2024
93/100
WOTN. Dark purple in colour. Notes of black fruit, tobacco, and licorice. Nice acidity, Elegant and smooth tannins. Med+ finish. Bigger wine, but so elegant. 18 years old, but still so young. Will drink well for years.
2006 vintage
Taster #2634 · Aug 21, 2023
91/100
No formal note. Nice wine. Nice acidity. Wish it was not the last wine of the night.
2006 vintage
Taster #4674 · Mar 17, 2023
93/100
excellent, balance medium bodied but with great flavor / fruit and acidity / lift
2006 vintage
Taster #4674 · Jun 27, 2022
92/100
very good, and in contrast to my red burg experiences with 2006 (burly / heavy) this wine was light on its feet, had red and purple fruit on the palate, with good acidity and lift... pretty basic on both night one and night two but just an easy going wine with med plus body and an acidic rail for the fruit to ride on
2006 vintage
Taster #9287 · Mar 19, 2022
95/100
Drinking marvellous now. Can let it age more but no need to.
2006 vintage
Taster #0210 · May 1, 2021
92/100
Impressive bouquet of fresh cut flowers, tar, roses, earth, dried cherries. Mid-palate was missing some fruit but the acidity provides the refreshment factor. Tannins very fine, but still a little drying so some food is needed. Really nice Barolo.
2006 vintage
Taster #0210 · May 8, 2020
94/100
Decanted for an hour. Clear ruby. Bouquet of earth, truffles, cherries, tar, smoke, leather dried flowers (roses and violets). Intense. Palate shows tremendous balance of integrated fine tannins, nice acidity, medium alcohol, and an overall medium body. Long complex finish. Paired beautifully with a pan-seared strip steak with pan sauce. What a gorgeous wine.
2006 vintage
Taster #9652 · Dec 12, 2018
Borgogno Barolo Riserva vertical tasting at Jeroboams, Knightsbridge. Nose of floral Wimbledon strawberry, burnt caramel. On the palate the youthful tannins and furry traditional (Slavonian) Croatian oak were tongue-curlingly unresolved making any assessment difficult. But all said, a fine wine in the - very long term - making. Hold until 2026. Perhaps 92+?+ potential. Patience with all these wines necessary!
2006 vintage
Taster #8005 · Oct 24, 2018
90/100
Nose with cherries and cranberries, some candied berries, hints of tar, some flowery notes, mineral, and just hints of developed notes. Medium-bodied, palate with cranberries, some light-coloured cherries, fine acidity, fine minerality, noticeable tannins, and a somewhat firm aftertaste with berries and mineral. Perhaps a little on the light side for a Barolo from a very good vintage, and still (surprisingly) young, will develop with more time in the cellar. 90(+) p. I was surprised that this was still so …
2006 vintage
Taster #0913 · Jan 2, 2018
93/100
Medium, orange garnet colour. Highly aromatic with dried cherries, orange rind, cloves and flint on the nose. Elegant palate with a drying grip. Medium bodied with fresh acidity; medium finish. 4.5/5
2006 vintage
Taster #1078 · Jun 13, 2017
88/100
Terroir Tuesday at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL) : One of the more ornery bottles of Borgogno tonight, this was intensely black-fruited, with quite a bit of extraction. Dense and very powerful, but shut down in a way that makes this a little tough to evaluate. I think this shows the vintage in a very clear way. Not the most complex, but very good for its level.
2006 vintage
Taster #1714 · Jun 13, 2017
89/100
I was really hoping for more out of this one. Nothing wrong but a simple straight forward Nebbiolo that tastes more like an entry level Nebbiolo than a 2006 Barolo. Drink up.
2006 vintage
Taster #0975 · Apr 30, 2017
90/100
The wine took 90 minutes to open but it was still not quite there. Classis black cherries, mushrooms, forest floor, light sweet Oak. Smooth, but finish was a short. This wine had no sediment and comes across as being at least 3 - 5 years away from entering its ideal drinking window, at which time it should improve materially and likely put on more weight.
2006 vintage
Taster #9013 · May 31, 2016
92/100
Drunk over two days. Tea and tar predominate on the nose, with intriguing soupcons of violets fusing with red fruit liqueur. Tight, but increasingly generous and voluminous palate, with notably softened tannins. At or approaching its ideal drinking window.
2006 vintage
Taster #2769 · May 18, 2016
91/100
Very good Barolo that's in a nice place. Showing plenty of maturity, but there is still some pretty bracing cherry fruit beneath the emerging prunes and dried roses. Quite ethereal at times, this has silky and fragrant elegance supported by some sooty tanins and soft, but supportive, acidity. On a nice and mellow path from here.
2006 vintage
Taster #6708 · May 9, 2016
An elegant wine that is beautifully balanced. There are notes of sweet flowers, Asian spice, lipstick and minerals. It has a solid graphite spine and delicate red berry fruits. The finish is long and ethereal.
2006 vintage
Taster #9075 · May 5, 2016
93/100
Perfume, rose, ripe cherry. Medium garnet. Refined tannin. Quite open just from the bottle. Ready to drink, may develop further. With Helmut.
2006 vintage
Taster #7297 · Feb 5, 2016
90/100
90-91+
2006 vintage
Taster #3423 · Nov 19, 2015
91/100
Visit to Giacomo Borgogno (Barolo, Piemonte, Italy) : Garnet. Balsamic, rose, and dried cherry on the nose. Dried cherry and earth on the palate hold through to a long finish. This is slightly dried out but nonetheless attractive. Drink through 2030.
2006 vintage
Taster #2385 · Oct 21, 2015
Did not drink. Duplicate
2006 vintage
Taster #6170 · Oct 10, 2015
87/100
Nose is a bit developed but still shut down and with bitter structure. More tannins than fruit. Still there are dried fruits, raisins, prunes and leather. Tastes dominated by tannins at the beginning, but some fruit shines through. Still very young. Needs time to shine. 50+5+11+13+8 (87p)
2006 vintage
Taster #7019 · Sep 2, 2015
90/100
Chemical nose with roses and some tar. Pure on the palate with red berries. Some dryness and tannins, but surprisingly approachable.
2006 vintage
Taster #4674 · Aug 11, 2015
92/100
bottle purchased at Toscana's in Brentwood, wow this was a good choice as it was much more approachable than most nine year old barolos, immediately the nose came out of the glass with nice sweet florals and cherries/raspberries, palate was alive and lifted when first decanted with really nice acid and red fruits, also some spice, the palate got a touch heavier over the next two hours at dinner and especially back at the hotel, really nice wine and a …
2006 vintage
Taster #3302 · Jun 14, 2015
95/100
Muscular, dark fruit, earthy, tobacco leafy Intense powerful, eucalyptus, spice, concentration, power, long
2006 vintage
Taster #1745 · Feb 6, 2015
89/100
Nice aromas of autumn leaves, tar and dark berries. Juicy, warm and round taste, powerful and good length.
2006 vintage