1989 Gaja Barbaresco

Community Tasting Notes (53) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  10/30/2023 - Musinus wrote: 93 Points

  Garnet color, offering initial aromas of tar, roses, and roasted cherry that mature with aeration into scents of armagnac, balsamic, coffee, star anise, and sweet leather. Mature yet quite intoxicating. The thoroughly pleasing flavors of red plum, soy, and leather really complimented our garlic-roasted chicken and carmelized delicata squash. Superb autumn combo.

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  10/13/2023 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points

  Single blind 89 Gaja Horizontal. Gorgeous interplay of fruit, spice, florals, ash and rusticity. Fruit is maturing, but not yet mature, with plenty of concentration accented by tar, iron and floral nuances. In the first half of a peak drinking window.

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  10/13/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Barbaresco vs. Barolo (Chicago, IL): Served single blind. Clearly an older Gaja Barbaresco having just reached maturity, and relatively darker. Not as complex as the ST, though I preferred it to the SSL. Silky tannins, no modernist bent here whatsoever. Grainy tannins that smoothed out upon revisiting the wine later in the evening.

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  12/17/2022 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Wines with porchetta (Chicago, IL): Pretty certain that all my notes on this wine are from bottles from the same batch. This was a really good bottle -- very clean, with still a good amount of primary fruit remaining, though mostly the profile on this has become secondary. Pretty stereotypical red fruit, flowers, and tar, to be honest, with a little extra kick that might be the Gaja. Definitely at some sort of peak now, though those who prefer more tertiary nebbiolo should wait.

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  7/29/2021 - Nanda wrote: 89 Points

  More Wine, Less Delta (Osteria Langhe): This never quite came around and hit a stride but it did improve over the course of the night. Just too much on the dirty and coarse side of the spectrum to be pleasurable, but seemingly with potential that more air might have cleaned up.

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