2005 Gaja Barbaresco

Community Tasting Notes (48) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  3/6/2024 - gstutz Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Brick red in color. Sandalwood, prune and clay pot on nose and reminiscent of a port. Cherry and vanilla in taste again with some oxidized notes like a port. Tannins have moderated and marry well with acidity. Drinking well and time to drink. I experienced none of the issues described by others, perhaps as this was a 375 ml stored in a Eurocave. Served with truffle risotto and a very complementary pairing.

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  6/20/2023 - Rani Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  Even after two hours of air, this just wasn’t a good wine. Very vegetal, concentrated, ripe yet acidic but unrelentingly soupy. I have a bottle and I hope mine will fare differently.

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  3/7/2023 - hsacks Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Medium red color. Aromas of red fruits, smoke and licorice. Medium-bodied high acid fruit in the mouth with very good depth and length and fully resolved tannins. Bright and supple on the palate. A little disappointing given its price and reputation but still lovely with my wife’s grilled veal chop.

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  8/2/2022 - oldwines wrote: 90 Points

  Tasted blind among 6 Nebbiolo’s at an event by SKurtz. When I tasted this it seemed rather clumsy, overdone and overpowered by smoke and ash notes. There was the appropriate cherry and tar but it seemed unfocused and bold without a purpose. It didn’t look beyond it’s years but did show just a hint of brick. I guessed it as a modern Nebbiolo from Barolo. It didn’t seem to have the grace and elegance one might have expected.

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  8/2/2022 - skurtz Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Double decanted for 2-3h in advance of a dinner party, in which we tasted six nebbiolos head-to-head, blinded. Aromatic nose, with sandalwood and vanilla. On the palate, great intensity of red fruit, mineral, tar, roses, pepper, still some tannins left in the acid finish. Well balanced and delicious! This was the fussiest of the wines this evening requiring the greatest amount of air (6h) but even then it finished among the least favorite in the blinded tasting. At one point maybe 3h after opening it would have rated a 92, but in my mind not as impressive as some of the '16 vintage, especially the riservas, from much less expensive producers. Don't get me wrong, this is excellent wine, but tasted blind, today's barbarescos have come a long way. If you want to Wow a knowledageble client for a business dinner, then of course bring this for shock and awe factor. Otherwise many winemakers produce as good if not better wine imo *especially* factoring in value. Drink up. 91/92

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