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Wine Description
The Story
Gaja Barbaresco: The Standard-Bearer of Modern Piedmont
No single wine has done more to reshape the global standing of Italian viticulture than Gaja Barbaresco. Founded in 1859 in the village of Barbaresco, the Gaja family estate had long produced serious, estate-grown Nebbiolo. However, it was Angelo Gaja’s arrival in 1961 that sparked a viticultural and stylistic revolution. Defying regional convention, Angelo introduced radical innovatio...
Wine Information
1978 – "Finally, 1978 was a celebrated vintage, a great vintage. Indeed, it was a special vintage. The grapes ripened very slowly.
It was a very closed vintage and difficult to understand. It only began to discover its quality after fifteen or twenty years. It took time. This was a type of miracle that Nebbiolo can sometimes do. Vintages considered medium quality can show a better wine than we are expecting. Some vintages are like this"
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Vintage 1978
The 1978 wine vintage in Italy was a breathtaking, monumental masterpiece, universally ranked alongside 1971 and 1990 as one of the absolute greatest Italian harvests of the 20th century. A delayed spring led to an exceptionally long, slow growing season, which was saved by a miracle late summer and a flawless, sun-drenched autumn that allowed late-ripening grapes to reach unprecedented levels of perfect phenolic maturity and sugar concentrati...
