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Bruno Giacosa put a red label on a Barolo only in the years he judged worth it. The 2000 Riserva from Le Rocche del Falletto, in magnum, opened at twenty years — delicate for a hot vintage, and unmistakably the work of the man who owned the hill.
A Napa vintage that spent two decades being skipped over, opened at exactly twenty years — on a table where the other open bottle was from 2020.
The same wine as the 2000 vintage bottling, held back and left on its lees for sixteen years instead of eight. The theory is that Champagne matures in steps rather than along a curve.