98-Points by Wine Enthusiast.
Produced only in the best vintages, from grapes that ripen in the highest part of the vineyard, the wine ferments for a long period of 25 - 30 days followed by three years of aging in traditional Slavonian oak barrels. Before release on the market, the wine is further aged until the sixth year after harvesting. Mature Marasca cherry, rose and menthol aromas mingle with new leather and clove on this structured, linear red. The firm polished palate features crushed raspberry, orange zest, licorice and tobacco framed in taut refined tannins. Drink 2022–2032.
 
Giacomo Borgogno e Figli is a historic and famed wine estate based in the town of Barolo in the Italian wine region of Piedmont. It is best known for its Riserva Barolo wines, which are some of the most sought-after and expensive wines from the region. 
Borgogno is also notorious for cellaring its wines for more than a decade prior to release. Alongside the Riserva, Barolo features heavily throughout the wine portfolio. Outside of the Barolo DOCG, Borgogno produces a Langhe Nebbiolo, a Dolcetto d'Alba and a Barbera d'Alba, among others.
Borgogno has plots in five of the Barolo cru vineyards, including the monopole Liste. Fruit from Liste, Cannubi and Fossati is made into single-vineyard releases, and the standard and Riserva wines are made from fruit from a combination of the three.
The winery is situated in the center of Barolo town, with cellars dug into the surrounding hillside. Borgogno uses traditional winemaking methods including indigenous yeasts, long fermentations and the use of large Slavonian oak barrels.
The Barolo wines spend four years in oak, except for the Riserva which gets an additional year.
Barolo
 - Made from 100% Nebbiolo grapes, these wines take their name from the village of Barolo. A maximum of 205,000 cases per year can be made from 3081 acres of land divided between 11 communes and more than 1200 growers. La Morra, Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Monforte and Serralunga are the most important communes and produce most of the exported wine. 
Barolo is a powerhouse wine in some communes but also more delicate in others (La Morra is the most delicate and Serralunga the most powerful). Recent technological and viticultural advances are remaking Barolo into a wine that is more consistent balanced. Producers here do not want to change the flavor or feel of their wines, only improve and eliminate poor winemaking technique. A wine of great perfume, body and size the classic nose of "tar and roses" aromas, have a deceptively light garnet color but full presence on the palate and plenty of tannins and acidity. In a well-made Barolo wine, one can expect to find complexity and good evolution with notes of, for example, strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, truffle, anise, fresh and dried herbs, tobacco and violets.
There are two predominant soil types here, which distinguish Barolo from the lesser surrounding areas. Compact and fertile Tortonian sandy marls define the vineyards farthest west and at higher elevations. Typically the Barolo wines coming from this side, from La Morra and Barolo, can be approachable relatively early on in their evolution and represent the “feminine” side of Barolo, often closer in style to Barbaresco with elegant perfume and fresh fruit.
On the eastern side of the Barolo wine region, Helvetian soils of compressed sandstone and chalks are less fertile, producing wines with intense body, power and structured tannins. This more “masculine” style comes from Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba. The township of Castiglione Falletto covers a spine with both soil types.
The best Barolo wines need 10-15 years before they are ready to drink, and can further age for several decades.