Presenting a more youthful appearance, the 2021 Barbaresco Sori San Lorenzo is a complete wine already, with ripe, expressive fruit as well as notes of ripe cherry liqueur and pressed flowers. While the oak is going to need time to come together, the wine simultaneously displays broad tannins, power, weightlessness, and an intense mineral drive. It evolves rapidly in the glass, developing notes of pure cinnamon, and continues to reveal more layers over time.
2021
Gaja Barbaresco Sorì San Lorenzo 2021 1x150cl 100/100JD
Top Score: 100 points!
“a classic in the making.”
Price IN BOND
£1,275.00 1 x 150cl Magnum
1 in stock
| Colour | Red |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
100 points Jeb Dunnuck
99 points James Suckling
A rather exotic and wild Sori San Lorenzo. Even flamboyant. Dried flowers and spices with bark, mushroom and dried dark cherry. Perfumed and primary with earth. Full-bodied and juicy with such fine velvety tannins that are layered and superb. So classic and soft on the palate with great length. Give this four to five years, but a classic in the making. Try after 2029.
99 points Doctor Wine
The Sorì San Lorenzo site is often the first to be harvested as it benefits from warm air currents. Wow, what a breathtaking, expressive nose, almost transcendental, incredibly profound and complex, bright red, freshly picked flowers, graphite, blossoms and fine terroir and iron notes, which are typical here. Powerful structure on the palate, the finest raspberries, minerality throughout, a super arc of tension with a bright, radiant style through to the long, vibrant final.
