Lot 212
GAJA BARBARESCO 2004 (1) WA 93
GAJA BARBARESCO 2005 (1)
GAJA BARBARESCO SORI SAN LORENZO 2010 (1) WA 98
GAJA BAROLO CONTEISA CEREQUIO DAGROMIS 1997 (1)
GAJA BAROLO DAGROMIS 1998 (1)
GAJA SORI TILDIN LANGHE 2010 (1) WA 96+
Lot 212 Details
GAJA BARBARESCO 2004 (1)
Piedmont.
u. 1 cm. scraped & marked label.
WA 93
GAJA BARBARESCO 2005 (1)
Piedmont.
scraped label.
GAJA BARBARESCO SORI SAN LORENZO 2010 (1)
Piedmont.
marked label.
A banner wine for Gaja, the 2010 Sori San Lorenzo brings the infinite and ethereal aromas associated with Nebbiolo into startling focus and clarity. Again, like the Sori Tildin, the structure and tannic firmness of the wine will carry the wine forward over the years and decades ahead. It demands much more time until it fully blossoms. I walked through the San Lorenzo vineyard with Gaia Gaja and she showed me some of their recent activity. Every second row is planted with barley that acts as a natural rototiller given its aggressive root system. Borrowing other “New World” ideas, they’ve started compost piles with Californian red worms and are using (with less success, I’m told) wooden tree boxes to repopulate the birds. All of this must seem very odd to the neighbors. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2040. June 2013 WA 98
GAJA BAROLO CONTEISA CEREQUIO DAGROMIS 1997 (1)
Piedmont.
u. ts. scraped label.
GAJA BAROLO DAGROMIS 1998 (1)
Piedmont.
u. vts. scraped & marked label.
GAJA SORI TILDIN LANGHE 2010 (1)
Piedmont.
u. 1 cm. scraped label.
Gaia Gaja uses the word “salty” to describe this next wine, and I see her point. The 2010 Sori Tildin shows a dry, firmly structured quality that enhances those extraordinary, breezy overtones of lead pencil and brimstone that so fittingly frame the Nebbiolo grape. The lingering end-notes of rose petal, ginger and cedar are striking. You immediately feel the tannic structure and power of the wine. The jump is very sharp next to the Costa Russi, and that’s why this is one of Gaja’s best cellar-agers. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2040. June 2013 WA 96+