This is a really enticing wine with an open and vivid nature that tells you right away it is Barolo, but it’s polished and sweetly tannic. You want to taste and taste. It’s medium- to full-bodied with rounded tannins and a savoryfinish. Juicy and so approachable now. Better in a couple of years, but hard to resist now. Try after 2026.
2020
Gaja Barolo Conteisa 2020 1x150cl 98/100 JS
Top Score: 98 points
“Juicy and so approachable now. Better in a couple of years, but hard to resist now.”
Price IN BOND
£655.00 1 x 150cl Magnum
8 in stock
| Colour | Red |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
98 points James Suckling
97 points Jeb Dunnuck
The Serralunga power comes through in the 2020 Barolo Conteisa. Boasting a jeweled, shimmering ruby color, it’s ripe and expressive with pristine notes of strawberry preserve, balsamic herbs, candied flowers, and sweet tobacco. It offers a lot of ripe sapidity on the palate, with a resinous quality, a touch of warmth, a rounded feel, and great length. It’s fairly approachable now, but it’s going to have the structure to last over the long haul, 20 years or so.
97 points Vinous
The 2020 Barolo Conteisa is fabulous. Once again, Conteisa makes a very strong case for itself as the most improved wine at Gaja. Sensual, silky tannins and lifted aromatics capture the pinnacle of finesse. Medium in body, gracious and impeccable in its balance, Conteisa is stunning in its beauty. In the past, I had always considered Conteisa the lesser of the Gaja Barolos, but that is no longer the case.
