First year production: 1859

Property: Gaja family

Conduction: Conventional

Hectares: 92,00

Address: The company is located in the center of the municipality of Barbaresco

 

 

With Angelo Gaja at the late seventies under the command of the family company, for the first time the noble reds of Langa tried to define themselves in a radically new way, separated resolutely from the past and writing a further chapter of success. Barolo and Barbaresco, historically the Italian representative wines, those to be consumed only in the great anniversaries, were experiencing difficult seasons in a time of economic boom, in a society that began to embrace well-being and changed their skin even in terms of taste. It was not random that in the foreign markets the Top Wines Piedmontese had always paid duty to the French ones - it should be emphasized, the latter of the very long history - and now also to those of the new world, which introjected the lesson of the Oltralpe oily were trying to extremize features. Austi and therefore difficulties of Langa's reds until it happened that the young Angel gathered stretched in the productive choices of the house, refersing the agronomic-enological belief. Extreme pruning in the vineyard, obsessive attention to the processing in the cellar and to contribute decisively to this turning point also to help the use of the barrique, which allowed to go out at great speed from the stylistic gap between us and the rest of the wine world that He counted. The aesthetic base of New Wave Langarola had thus outlined, the most brilliant, the one that next to the sumptuous Nebbiolo had joined Chardonnay and Cabernet vineyards, to create boldly modern labels that could light international reflectors on a small village of Piedmont, unknown to the more. Was it still the noble wine of Langa? Of course yes, refined in the fullest sense of the term, precisely because exploring new expressive roads defined his new nature of Unicum. Today Barbaresco and Barolo are definitely on the crest of the wave and for many verses the merit must be attributed to Angelo Gaja, the man who rediscovered the tradition of Italian wine.