Gaja   Gaia Rey

2017 Gaia & Rey

By Gaja

Current market price

$4,020.00

12x75cl

Highest score

93

POP score

185.38

Scores and tasting notes

93

This wine was first made in 1983, and back then, no malolactic fermentation occurred. Jump forward in time to the 2017 Langhe Gaia & Rey, and this is another vintage in which malo did not start. (Partial malolactic returns in 2018). Since those first years of production, the oak usage has also been tweaked, now with less barrique in favor of more botte grande. Thanks to these changes, the aromatic profile of this wine veers toward citrus and rich tropical fruit, especially in a warm vintage such as this. However counterintuitive, this edition also shows a very bright and precise touch of acidity that serves to give the wine balanced and mouth-cleansing salinity.

Monica Larner - The Wine Advocate, 28 June 2019

Vintage performance