Single Vineyard Assortment Case
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2046
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic Piedmontese dishes featuring white truffles, slow-braised beef in Nebbiolo wine, and roasted game such as venison or wild boar.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Gaja Single Vineyard Assortment Case represents the pinnacle of Piedmontese winemaking, showcasing Angelo Gaja's revolutionary vision that redefined Italian wine on the global stage. This curated collection typically features Gaja's legendary single-vineyard Nebbiolo masterpieces from the Langhe: Sori San Lorenzo, Sori Tildin, and Costa Russi. Each vineyard tells a unique story of terroir and heritage. 'Sori' translates to the first spot on a hill where the snow melts, indicating prime south-facing exposure. Sori Tildin is named in honor of Angelo's grandmother, Clotilde Rey, who taught him that quality requires no compromise, while Costa Russi honors the vineyard's historical tenant. Sori San Lorenzo, named after the patron saint of Alba, is celebrated for its powerful, brooding structure. Historically classified as Barbaresco, Angelo famously declassified these wines to Langhe DOC in the late 1990s to allow a small blending of Barbera for acidity balance, before returning them to their historic DOCG status in recent vintages. Crafted with meticulous green harvesting, fermentation in stainless steel, and aging in a combination of active French barriques and traditional large Slavonian oak casks, these wines offer an unparalleled expression of Nebbiolo's complex aromatics of tar, roses, and dark cherries, backed by muscular, age-worthy tannins.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1859 by Giovanni Gaja in Barbaresco, Gaja is among the most influential dynasties in modern Italian viticulture. The estate's global stature was fundamentally transformed by fourth-generation icon Angelo Gaja, who introduced temperature-controlled fermentation, French barrique aging, green harvesting, and single-vineyard bottlings to Piedmont. Viticulture across the Langhe's classic calcareous marls focuses on biodiversity, soil vitality, and organic tenets tailored to climate adaptation, eschewing rigid certification schemes. Gaja is celebrated worldwide for its benchmark Nebbiolos—notably the flagship Barbaresco DOCG alongside historic single-vineyard crus Sorì San Lorenzo, Sorì Tildìn, and Costa Russi—and its Barolo cru Sperss. In addition to peerless expressions of Nebbiolo, the family revolutionized Piedmontese whites and Bordeaux blends through benchmark bottlings like Gaia & Rey Chardonnay, Rossj-Bass, and Darmagi. Today, the estate is led jointly by Angelo and his children Gaia, Rossana, and Giovanni.
🍇 Grapes
100% Nebbiolo