Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco, Asili, Piedmonte, 2022 (750ml)

95 Points Wine Advocate

The Bruno Giacosa 2022 Barbaresco Asili is hitting the market now. It was bottled on the 15th of July, 2024. This elegant wine shows the finely tuned and nuanced essence of Asili with its fine soils. It opens to a bright ruby color and delivers chalky tannins that retain their tension and grippy feel. On the close, you get hints of violets and blue flower. This is a very terroir-driven wine, but it needs more time in bottle to fully express itself. There will be a red label, or Riserva, made in 2020 to be released later this year (that I have reviewed here). A 2021 Riserva will be released in 2026. If Bruna Giacosa (daughter of the late Bruno Giacosa) makes a red label, the white label is not produced. Bruna Giacosa's rundown of recent vintages goes like this: She sees similarities in 2000 versus 2020 and 2001 versus 2021. She describes 2021 as having the structure of 2016, and 2022 has the exuberant fruit we saw in 2015. The 2023 growing season saw drought, and 2024 suffered from an excess of water, especially in April, May and June (and during harvest too). - Monica Larner, January 2025