Giacosa Barbaresco Santo Stefano Riserva

...Stefano bottles of wine in the whole of Italy. This weekend I was packing up all my wines ready to make the bottle shocking trip back to London via Switzerland and France and decided to save this bottle the journey and drink the famous Red Label from at my leaving meal in Venice. What a chore!

Aside from some heartbreaking cork taint there 't going to be any question of disliking the...1998 has been my personal favourite and vintage to drink in 2008 and this bottle showed exceptionally well offering up all the traditional Piedmont notes as well as a huge dose of marzipan. Garnet red and still needing to disperse its share of tannins the wine is emphatically the best I've had this year and can happily be awarded 95 points.

Stefano - - €100. Perfect balance, touches of sweetness on the super-long finish and sweet spices and fruit throughout the tasting experience. Opulent and refined and in a great stage of its drinking window. 95 Points

. BUY? Buy a wine that costs €100? Of course this wine isn't , when we are talking about €100 bottles of wine we are talking about another experience completely. This is not every day drinking wine but rather wine for a special occasion, a very special occasion! Everyone spends money on something that someone else thinks is insane. Whilst 99% of the population would gawk at €100 for a bottle of wine, others would gladly hand money like this over for a pair of jeans or a haircut...and that would make me gawk.

- €100 Wine - $199 section really isn't working out for me! Suggestions???

wines that you just don't see what the...is about? Where it be?! And of course...have you had the...Stefano in any vintage?Italian Wine Blog - Wine90

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