1964 Giacomo Borgogno Barolo Riserva

Giacomo Borgogno & Figli is one of the few estates in Piedmont that collectors and sommeliers unanimously seek out and swoon over. The company was founded by Bartolomeo Borgogno in 1761. A hundred years later in 1861, its Barolo was chosen to accompany the official lunch celebrating the unification of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel II. Cesare Borgogno, who took charge in the 1920s, began the signature policy of keeping back wines for late release, and they are now particularly famous for their vast library of older vintages, immaculately stored in their cellars. Today, these well-aged bottles are regarded as some of the world's finest wines.

John Gilman - "The last pristine example of the ’64 Borgogno Barolo Riserva offered up a complex and fully mature nose of cherries, camphor, forest floor, tar, anise and a bit of bonfire in the upper register. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep and tarry, with lovely complexity, good focus and still a bit of untamed tannin to resolve perking up the long finish. Like many of the Borgognos from this era, this is not the most elegant rendition of Barolo, but it is deep, complex and has matured nicely into a wine that offers up the blossoming of bottle age and is a good example of the vintage."