Sori San Lorenzo
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2046
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef, roasted wild game such as venison, and rich pasta dishes featuring shaved white truffles.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sori San Lorenzo is one of the most legendary single-vineyard bottlings from the Langhe hills of Piedmont, first released by the visionary Angelo Gaja in 1967. The word 'Sori' translates in Piedmontese dialect to a south-facing hilltop where the snow melts first, indicating prime sun exposure, while 'San Lorenzo' refers to the patron saint of Alba's cathedral. Acquired by the Gaja family in 1964, this site is celebrated for producing the most powerful, structured, and muscular of Gaja's single-vineyard crus. Composed of 100% Nebbiolo grown in calcareous clay and limestone soils, the wine undergoes a meticulous aging process in both French barriques and traditional large oak casks. It is famous for its brooding complexity, showing deep notes of dark cherry, wild herbs, leather, and tar.
🍾 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