Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili, 2001 Freisa and Friends Curtimenta is the Portuguese word

Curtimenta is the Portuguese word for skin contact

and lavender emerge with time

Full-bodied with black fruit

This bottling represents a leap into one of Burgundy's most historically significant vineyard names

Bruno Giacosa, Barbaresco Asili, 2001 Freisa and Friends Curtimenta is the Portuguese wordBruno Giacosa's Asili the most perfumed cru in Barbaresco, from one of Piedmont's great classical vintages, twenty four years on. 2001 was Bruno still at the helm, and the wine carries the unmistakable Giacosa signature: silken texture, inner sweetness, a sense of weightless precision that few producers ever match. Asili sits on the southwest facing slope of Barbaresco village and gives wines built on floral lift rather than brute power and Giacosa's