Barbaresco, Gallina
    Piero Busso

    Barbaresco, Gallina, 2018

    91/100
    Vinous
    Available Vintages
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    1. 2018

      6x75cl

      DP

      £530.42

    2. 2018

      1x1.5L

      DP

      £187.61

    Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

    Gallina is the next ridge down from Albesani with the same south-west exposition. One of the great vineyards of the Langhe, Busso can count some very salubrious neighbours who have gradually moved in. The deeper soils with a higher clay content tends to produce wines with a little more power in the early going, but the 2018 has found its feet already as the most expressive and stylish incarnation of this wine we have tasted. Perfumed, silky red fruits and broad but ripe and overall gentle tannins vie with subtle camphor and blood orange droplets. With aeration, spicy aniseed, sweet earth and other savoury notes emerge. Intricate, harmonious and radiant. A really exceptional wine – one of our standouts of the entire tasting trip. A clay-dominated, south-west exposed vineyard that faces the river, Gallina has a very windy microclimate despite it not being particularly high, 240 metres altitude. Ageing is the same as for the other crus, 2 years in Slavonian oak casks, but it is kept an extra year in bottle before release.

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    Critic Reviews

    91/100
    Antonio Galloni,
    Vinous
    The 2018 Barbaresco Gallina is the most open-knit and forward of the three 2018 Barbarescos I tasted. Ripeness feels a bit pushed here, but it works nicely within the style of the wine. Super-ripe red cherry, sweet pipe tobacco, orange peel and exotic spice overtones build effortlessly as the Gallina shows off its racy, flamboyant personality.
    drinking window 2022 - 2028
    date of review 10/2022

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    Specifications

    Country:
    Italy
    Region:
    Piedmont
    Appellation:
    Barbaresco
    Producer:
    Piero Busso
    style:
    Red Wine
    Grape Variety:
    Nebbiolo
    abv:
    14%

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