Email: sales@laywheeler.com|Tel: 01473 313 300| Follow Us On Twitter View our Blog
* Indicates required fields
Passwords are case sensitive.
Forgotten your password?

Items: 0  £0.00

View basket | Checkout

 
1999 Barbaresco, Gaja, Piedmont

1999 Barbaresco, Gaja, Piedmont

  • Style: Dry, Red, StillDry, Red, Still
  • Country: ItalyItaly
  • Maturity: Improving/Ready 2007 – 2018Improving/Ready 2007 – 2018 

This item is currently unavailable for purchase through Lay & Wheeler.

Our fine wine trading team may be able to source the wine for you. Please use our contact form to provide us with your details.

.

Wine Details

Vintage: 1999
Colour: Red
Style: Still
Size: Bottle - 75cl (75cl.)
Alcohol: -
Sweetness: Dry
Maturity advice: Improving/Ready 2007 – 2018
Organic: -
Country: Italy
Producer: Gaja
Serving temp.: -
Classification: Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita

Tasting Note

This wine demonstrates the hallmarks of Gaja's finely-honed wine-making technique, offering voluptuous textures, an expansive palate of well-defined fruit and an opulent structure which promises great ageing potential. One is initially struck by the incredible bouquet: incense and ripe red and black fruits. The palate is majestic, offering great presence yet fine tannins which are beautifully masked. A wine of restrained power and elegance, new oak cloaked by sumptuous flavours. Pervasive and wide-ranging, this is a very fine wine.

Region Details

100% Italy (North West) / Piedmont / Barbaresco (DOCG)

Piedmont is a powerhouse for quality wine in Italy, with a number of producers, traditional and forward-thinking, leading the charge. Both barolo and barbaresco have been transformed in the last thirty years, so that the old definitions no longer apply. Nebbiolo remains the noble grape but viticulture, vinification - and pricing - have changed irrevocably. Modern wines are elegant, rich and fruit-focused, with a fine veneer of new oak; even traditional wines are less woody and display sleeker tannins than in the days of yore, and the caricature of pruney, blood-coloured and astringent barolo, or of soft-centred and overstretched barbaresco is now consigned to history. The region delivers a multitude of wines from other grapes too, white, red, sweet and sparkling, and a near-unbroken run of good and great vintages since the mid-nineties have added to the appeal.

Vintage Notes

1999 - Italy

A third successive hot vintage, but one which produced few if any problems in the vineyards. In Tuscany, grapes were harvested with excellent sugar levels, leading to well-structured yet supple and balanced wines. Not the blockbuster of 1997, but an undoubtedly fine year. Piemonte experienced a cooler August, but the fine conditions of September permitted the grapes to ripen well, producing wines which were opulent and ripe. The wines are less exuberant than the two preceding years, but exhibit a natural harmony and balance. The lesser cuvées have evolved relatively quickly, but at the top level there is sufficient structure to permit good cellar potential.

Grape Variety

100% Nebbiolo

The most noble of Piedmont's red grapes where it is used alone in the production of both barolo and barbaresco. A late ripening variety, it is prone to poor autumnal weather; but in the right conditions it soars to heights of complexity, offering both tannic structure and delicacy. When young it exhibits an array of aromas and flavours, with violets, plum and even tar present, and has the potential to age magnificently. Always notably crisp, usually high in alcohol, it needs sensitive handling to avoid astringency. For this reason it has rarely translated successfully to other growing regions.

.
.

Established in 1854, Lay & wheeler is an international fine wine merchant specialising in en primeur, in bond and fine wine sales, cellerage and broking.

Contact Information

Lay & Wheeler Limited,
Holton Park,
Holton St Mary,
Suffolk CO7 6NN.

Email: sales@laywheeler.com

Tel: 01473 313 300

© 2013 Lay & Wheeler Ltd
You must be over 18 years of age to purchase alcohol, please drink responsibly.


+44 (0)1473 313 300 (Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm) | sales@laywheeler.com

Registered company 5730318 (England) | VAT Registration No: GB 637 0806 39 | Data Protection Register: Z7042967

Contact Address: Lay & Wheeler Limited, Holton Park, Holton St Mary, Suffolk CO7 6NN

Registered Address: Lay & Wheeler Limited, Majestic House, Otterspool Way, Watford, WD25 8WW, England