2020 Costa Russi
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Tasting notes
Lavender and sage with berries and dried strawberries, but so perfumed and subtle. Medium- to full-bodied with very fine tannins that are totally integrated with finesse and beauty at the end. Caresses your palate. Best after 2028.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
James Suckling
More reviews and scores
The 2020 Barbaresco Costa Russi is a classy, polished wine. Dark cherry, plum, mocha, new leather, licorice and lavender all take shape. As always, Costa Russi is the most supple and charming of the Gaja Barbarescos in the early going. (EG)
The Gaja 2020 Barbaresco Costa Russi has a rose and floral note that emerges at first, and it doesn't have the heavy dark earth or cured leather aromas that we get in the Barbaresco. This wine is focused on fruit tones, bright ones, and those nuances are juicy, generous and long. There's more youth in this wine, and the tannins are extremely fine and silky. Count on this wine to improve with age.
'Dry and mild winter and spring, followed by a warm summer with occasional thunderstorms, then cooler days until the harvest.' Roncagliette. Poured from magnum. Palish youthful ruby. Complex and alluring raspberry with a suggestion of cigar box and pepper. Still very embryonic and monolithic, with a charge of firm, grainy tannins, and in need of much more time. (WS)
About the producer
Gaja has been at the forefront of the Piedmont wine scene for many years and is Barbaresco’s most decorated producer. The winery has received a record number of Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri awards – the highest accolade from Italy’s leading wine publication.