This is a really dense red with intensity and beauty, showing dried fruit, such as strawberries, as well as chocolate, tar, hazelnuts and meat. Really complex and rich. Opulent, yet tense with dusty tannins. Extremely long. Great finish. Hard not to drink now, but will age incredibly well. Try after 2025.

Luminous bright red. Amazingly perfumed, complex and deep on the nose, with aromas of Oriental spices, cinnamon and red cherry syrup. Then slightly austere and tight in the mouth in the manner of many 2016 Barolos, but boasting very deep and rich flavours of strawberry, red cherry, tar, iron and black tea notes. Closes long and vibrant, with a refined quality and noteworthy but noble tannic bite. Absolutely superb Barolo: this is “only” the white label, non-Riserva wine, but is practically of the same quality level of that truly magical wine the estate also made in 1996. About 13,000 bottles made: my advice is to hunt one down at all costs. Drinking window: 2026-2043. Ian D'Agata Terroirsense.com

The Bruno Giacosa 2016 Barolo Falletto (white label) brings us another extraordinary expression from a classic vintage. Serralunga d'Alba fruit is full, generous and thickly layered in a manner that you always hope to encounter when lucky enough to drink pedigree Nebbiolo. There is enormous density here and power and grace; however, the Barolo Falletto is seemingly weightless and ever so delicate as it warms smoothly over the senses. Crisp cherry and blackberry are followed by delicate tones of crushed stone and iron ore. Bright tones of grilled herb and blue flower lift gently from the bouquet and add to the balanced intensity of this collectors' vintage.

A massive wine from Serralunga, this displays dense cherry and red-fruit aromas that are solid and brooding. Full-bodied with firm tannins that are chunky now, this has immense concentration and force, if not the ethereal quality that marks Giacosa's supreme wines. But it's balanced, with the high alcohol not discernible, and given the slight furriness on the very long finish, this needs time.