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Gaja Barbaresco DOCG 2005

The history of the Gaja family began over 300 years ago, when the family moved by Spain to Piedmont. The Barbaresco wine of Gaja cellar is a wine valued at international level

by Graziano Alderighi

Angelo Gaja, current holder of the Gaja wine cellar, has tried since the ‘60s to improve its wine with different techniques: reducing the production per hectare, by controlling the temperature of fermentation, using refining stoppers long and the wine in barrels.

The history of the Gaja family began over 300 years ago, when the family moved by Spain to Piedmont. The 1859 is the year of the founding of Gaja wine cellar, a company that over the years has been marked for the quality of its wines. In the 1937 Giovanni Gaja, Angelo’s father, created the label Gaja writing the name with characters larger than the name of the wine.
In the 1961, Gaja wine cellar borned, a winery that has characterized in the market because it vinified only with the property grapes.

Barbaresco D.O.C.G. 2005
Mixed grapes: Nebbiolo 100%
Year: 2005

Description: garnet red wine, dark olfactory impact impeccable with superb definition of fruit and spices. Initially of licorice and blackberry, blueberry and free as cherry, jams, then with floral tones. The flavour of Barbaresco Gaja is secure, with powerful structure, but measured.

The gastronomic combination with this wine from Piedmont excels finds its match with red meat and cheeses. Very important to serve the wine at a temperature of 18-20°c, after having oxygenated carefully in a decanter.

by Graziano Alderighi
14 April 2009 Teatro Naturale International n. 3 Year 1

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