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Chardonnay Gaia & Rey, Gaja 2018

RegionItaly
Subregion Italy > Piedmont
ColourWhite
TypeStill
Grape VarietyChardonnay

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Tasting Notes

The Gaja 2018 Langhe Gaia & Rey is a beautifully pure Piemontese expression of Chardonnay. It opens to a light gold/straw color with brilliant luminosity. This vintage is delicate but determined, powerful but fragile all at the same time. The bouquet is shy to start off and requires (at this young stage when I tasted the wine) ample time to aerate. Once it unwinds, the wine offers fresh citrus, orchard fruit, toasted almond and spice. Only partial malolactic fermentation is completed, so the wine's energy and inner nerve is very much intact. Flint and mineral play important supporting roles. Some 16,000 bottles were made. 2020 - 2035

95
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate (July 2020 ), July 2020
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