Barbaresco, Sori San Lorenzo, 2007
A brilliant, harmonious wine, corpulent flavours of ripe black and red forest berry fruits, rich, spicy and fresh, the tannins are firm but covered with enough fruit to suggest a good ageing potential, hints of flower and mineral complete the wonderful palette of flavours. The most distinguished of Gajas three 2009 Barbarescos. Aged for a year in large french oak cask and a year in smaller barriques, a third new.
critic reviews
The 2007 Langhe Sorì San Lorenzo is perhaps the most massive, virile wine in this lineup, and accordingly it will require the most time. Tannic and austere at the outset, the wine gradually opens to reveal staggering richness and depth in its dark fruit. The wine turns more elegant in the glass, revealing a myriad of black fruit, tar, licorice, spices and scorched earth in a dazzling display of class and elegance. This is one for the ages.