The 1991 Barbaresco Torre is obviously not comparable to any of the wines produced by this co-op in 1990 or 1989. Nevertheless, it is an attractive, fully mature, medium ruby/garnet-colored wine, with a textbook weedy, tobacco, tar, rose petal, and dried cherry fruit-scented nose. Sweet on the attack, with elegant, medium-bodied, savory flavors with no hard edges, it should be consumed over the next 5-6 years. Given the stratospheric prices of high quality Barbaresco and Barolo, this wine is a very good value.

The 1990 Barbaresco Torre reveals a dark ruby color with some lightening at the edge. This ripe wine exhibits the vintage's more noteworthy maturity, as it sings with ripe, sweet, intensely jammy, cherry, gamey aromas intermingled with spice and fruitcake-like scents. Perfumed and luscious on the palate, with dry tannin in the finish, this medium to full-bodied, concentrated, excellent Barbaresco can be drunk now as well as over the next 10-12 years. Given the stratospheric prices of high quality Barbaresco and Barolo, this wine is a very good value.