Barbaresco Asili 1998

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Barbaresco (Piedmont)

Nebbiolo
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧

The wine has a soft ruby red color with nuances of orange-red. The bouquet is pretty interesting, mainly of fruit, with intense aromas of black cherry, ripe cherry, raspberry, dried violet, as well as leather, tar vanilla and licorice. The wine is intense in the mouth as well with good flavors of fruit, good alcohol and body, evident tannins and well balanced. Wood aromas, although clearly evident, do not prevail over the fruity nature of this wine. The finish is persistent and fruity. The wine is ages for 12-24 months in casks followed by 6 months more in bottle.

Alcohol: 13.5%

Hard cheese, Roasted meat, Braised meat

Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines)

September 2002

Barbaresco Montestefano 1998

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Barbaresco (Piedmont)

Nebbiolo
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✭

This wine shows a light ruby red color with an orange-red tint. The aromas of this wine are mainly and pleasantly of fruit, and, among others, aromas of black cherry, dried plum, cherry jam can be perceived as well as leather, cocoa, dried violet and a light hint of enamel. This Barbaresco is balanced in the mouth, has a good quantity of alcohol and tannins as well as a good sapidity and good body. Wood aromas, although well perceivable, are not intrusive and do not prevail over the other organoleptic characteristics of the wine. The wine finish is persistent and has good flavors of dried plum and cherry. This wine is refined for 12-24 months in casks followed by 6 months in bottle.

Alcohol: 13.5%

Hard cheese, Roasted meat, Braised meat

Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines)

Issue 2, November 2002

Dolcetto d'Alba Vigneto Buschet 2001

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Dolcetto d'Alba (Piedmont)

Dolcetto
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✭

The wine shows a nice light ruby red as well as good transparency. The olfactory profile of this wine is mainly and pleasantly fruity; intense and typical aromas of black cherry, cherry and raspberry are perceived, as well as a pretty uncommon for this kind of wine, light and pleasing hint of rose. Fruit is also what emerges in the mouth and it fully confirms what has been perceived by the nose. The wine is well balanced and has a good crispness, has good and well balanced tannins. The finish is persistent with evident flavors of almond and fruit. This Dolcetto d'Alba is refined for at least 3-4 month in bottle.

Alcohol: 12%

Pasta with elaborated sauces, White meat, Soft cheese

Suggested glass	16 °C (60 °F)
(Young Red Wines)

Issue 2, November 2002

Langhe Freisa 2001

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Langhe (Piedmont)

Freisa
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✭

The wines is limpid and transparent with a ruby red color. Aromas are intense and persistent, mainly of fruit. The main aromas of this wine are of black cherry, raspberry and a hint of iodine. The mouth is balanced, good intensity and balanced tannins. Moreover, in the mouth are perceived the same fruit flavors with a good correspondence with the nose. Finish is persistent with evident hints of raspberry.

Alcohol: 12%

Meat appetizers, Cold cuts

Suggested glass	16 °C (60 °F)
(Young Red Wines)

September 2002

Roero Arneis Vigneto Dalmazzo 2001

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Roero (Piedmont)

Arneis
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧

A good example of Roero Arneis. The wine is crystalline and has a light straw yellow color with an evident greenish-yellow tint. It has very good and intense aromas, mainly fruit aromas, in particular pear, hazelnut, apple, hawthorn, pineapple and litchi are easily recognizable. A very pleasing and typical bouquet. In the mouth the wine is pretty crisp and it is well balanced with alcohol, the body is good and typical for this kind of wine. Flavors are intense and persistent and it has a finish of almond and hazelnut. This Roero Arneis is refined in bottle for 2-3 months.

Alcohol: 12%

Appetizers, Light Pasta, Eggs, Vegetables, Fish

Suggested glass	10 °C (50 °F)
(Young and Crisp White Wines)

Issue 2, November 2002

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Luigi Giordano

Piedmont (Italy)

Barbaresco Asili 1998

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Barbaresco Montestefano 1998

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Dolcetto d'Alba Vigneto Buschet 2001

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Langhe Freisa 2001

Luigi Giordano (Italy)

Roero Arneis Vigneto Dalmazzo 2001

Luigi Giordano (Italy)