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Sori San Lorenzo 2017

Gaja

Case Format: 6x75cl

Max score: 99.0

Gaja is an Italian wine producer from the Piemonte region in the district of Langhe, chiefly producing a number of Barbaresco and Barolo wines, and later diversified into Brunello and “Super-Tuscan” production. Its current owner and president Angelo Gaja is credited with developing techniques that have revolutionised winemaking in Italy, and terms such as “the undisputed king of Barbaresco”, and “the man who dragged Piedmont into the modern world” have been applied to him, and whose Barbaresco wine is considered a status symbol on a par with Château Lafite-Rothschild or Krug. Gaja produces in all 18 different wines from vineyards in Piedmont 100 hectares (250 acres), within the Barbaresco zone Barbaresco and Treiso and the Barolo zone Serralunga d’Alba and La Morra, in Montalcino 27 hectares (67 acres) and Bolgheri 110 hectares (270 acres), with a total annual production of 350,000 bottles.

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CRITIC REVIEWS

95
Stephen Brook

This is generally the most austere of the three Gaja single-vineyard wines, and it has also been described as wilder. In this vintage the nose does seem to have more weight than Sori Tildin, with rich raspberry and cherry aromas. Its sumptuous, full-bodied and concentrated, with considerable density and weight. Despite its youthful chewiness, its still polished and balanced, with a very long finish.

95+
Monica Larner

The 2017 growing season saw a couple of violent hail events in the Barbaresco appellation, and this celebrated vineyard suffered some damage during a storm that hit on July 19th. Yields were reduced, but the wine holds its own thanks to the careful fruit selection process put in place by the Gaja family. Their 2017 Barbaresco Sorì San Lorenzo is a shade richer in terms of flavor concentration, as is always the case with fruit from this slightly warmer growing site. However, like the other two single-vineyard Barbaresco expressions, this wine reveals a thin, sharp and nervous personality that is driven in large part by tannic firmness and acidity. Sorì San Lorenzo adds lots of dark mineral definition to cassis, wild cherry, rose and Provence herbs. Like the other wines, it needs extra cellar aging time.

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