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AN AMAZING ARRAY OF WINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
This collection was carefully put together with an eye toward wine dinners and entertaining. The size of the cellar exceeds even the healthiest of appetites necessitating this sale after much contemplation. From Italy, there are numerous vintages of Gaja, Ceretto and Sassicaia. Many mature classic California selections including Mondavi, Montelena and Beaulieu Vineyards also abound. Several tastings of this cellar have shown remarkably youthful even for lesser vineyards and vintages.
Property of two investors and friends in wine
Removed from professional storage
Justin Christoph
GAJA
Over the course of four generations, the Gaja family has graced the region of Piedmont with fine winemaking. Since 1961, Giovanni Gaja's great-grandson Angelo adds the merit of revolutionary to the family's accolades. Amidst south-facing hilltops in Barbaresco, known in local dialect as "sori", Angelo Gaja committed to making exclusively estate grown wines.
Gaja's transformation of Piedmont and perhaps even Italy began with his short pruning methods, the introduction of barrique aging to his wines, and the importation of foreign grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay to his vineyards. His vision to produce terroir driven single-vineyard wines keeps Gaja's wines on the short list of Italy's finest.
Barbaresco--Vintage 1961
Piedmont, Gaja
Levels: 4cm
"Great in Piedmont, exceptionally hot vintage. Made by Angelo's father. Two notes, first in 1984 dining at Spark's Steak House in New York. The late Pat Cetta most generously brought a bottle to my table: it was the most beatuiful, faultless, Italian wine I had ever drunk: soft, 'warm', inimitable bouquet; the sweetness of perfectly ripe grapes and a flavour which opened up into an unforgettable crescendo. Over 20 years later, at the end of an Italian wine tasting I was conduction for the Chaine des Rotisseurs in Nassau, in the Bahamas, the proprietor, Enrico Garzaroli, opened a surprise bottles and gave it to me to taste blind. It could, I said, only be the '61 Gaja; lovely, mature, great-vintage colour; supurb flavour and silky 'mouth-feel', great length, still tannic." Last tasted Feb 97 ***** MB, Vintage Wine
4 bottles per lot
This collection was carefully put together with an eye toward wine dinners and entertaining. The size of the cellar exceeds even the healthiest of appetites necessitating this sale after much contemplation. From Italy, there are numerous vintages of Gaja, Ceretto and Sassicaia. Many mature classic California selections including Mondavi, Montelena and Beaulieu Vineyards also abound. Several tastings of this cellar have shown remarkably youthful even for lesser vineyards and vintages.
Property of two investors and friends in wine
Removed from professional storage
Justin Christoph
GAJA
Over the course of four generations, the Gaja family has graced the region of Piedmont with fine winemaking. Since 1961, Giovanni Gaja's great-grandson Angelo adds the merit of revolutionary to the family's accolades. Amidst south-facing hilltops in Barbaresco, known in local dialect as "sori", Angelo Gaja committed to making exclusively estate grown wines.
Gaja's transformation of Piedmont and perhaps even Italy began with his short pruning methods, the introduction of barrique aging to his wines, and the importation of foreign grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay to his vineyards. His vision to produce terroir driven single-vineyard wines keeps Gaja's wines on the short list of Italy's finest.
Barbaresco--Vintage 1961
Piedmont, Gaja
Levels: 4cm
"Great in Piedmont, exceptionally hot vintage. Made by Angelo's father. Two notes, first in 1984 dining at Spark's Steak House in New York. The late Pat Cetta most generously brought a bottle to my table: it was the most beatuiful, faultless, Italian wine I had ever drunk: soft, 'warm', inimitable bouquet; the sweetness of perfectly ripe grapes and a flavour which opened up into an unforgettable crescendo. Over 20 years later, at the end of an Italian wine tasting I was conduction for the Chaine des Rotisseurs in Nassau, in the Bahamas, the proprietor, Enrico Garzaroli, opened a surprise bottles and gave it to me to taste blind. It could, I said, only be the '61 Gaja; lovely, mature, great-vintage colour; supurb flavour and silky 'mouth-feel', great length, still tannic." Last tasted Feb 97 ***** MB, Vintage Wine
4 bottles per lot