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Community Tasting Notes 5
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Buick455 wrote: 93 points
February 24, 2023 - This was fun. My wife turned 50, so this was appropriate. Slow ox for 8 hours after being upright all night. Age showing on edge. Medium brick red color, more dark than anticipated. Very pleasent. Good balance. Long finish.
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tinybubbles Likes this wine: 92 points
September 12, 2020 - Required an hour to open but showed great depth and a very savory character for the vintage.
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Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 92 points
April 1, 2018 - From 3.78L bottle. Was hard to know exactly what to do here. Opened this monster and tasted a small glass. Was frankly awful. An hour in it had blown off a lot of funk and was rich with some good red and black berries, earth, ash and charcoal. Ended up drinking the bottle about 3-4 hours later and it held up well. Not a great year and very pleased with how this turned out.
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BradKNYC wrote:
March 22, 2013 - Thankfully, Leo is doing much better at age 40 than this magnum is, as it's a shot bottle. Completely maderized. NR.
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noppakit s. wrote: 91 points
March 31, 2008 - Tested 30.03.2008 on my brother's 35th birthday. This bottle is perfect condition from Japan. Thanks to R'Nij for bringing us this bottle.
Clear orange colour, Clean red fruit like a fine old Burgundy, lovely nose. Medium-bodied, too old but still enjoyable with a dry and long long finished.
Getting more body and fruit with time. Hints of smoke after 2 hours.... I love this old Gaja....
Drink now ( decline )
ps. IMO, for Gaja's top wines and good vintages should be drunk atleast 20 years after released.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1973
- Type Red
- Producer Gaja
- Varietal Nebbiolo
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Italy
- Region Piedmont
- SubRegion Langhe
- Appellation Barbaresco
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 38 (58%)
- Consumed 27 (42%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
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- FamilyGaja Barbaresco
- ProducerGaja
- VarietyNebbiolo
- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarbaresco
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- VarietalNebbiolo
- CountryItaly
- RegionPiedmont
- SubRegionLanghe
- AppellationBarbaresco