Gaja

Founded in 1859 in the village of Barbaresco by Giovanni Gaja, Gaja is one of Italy’s most influential wine estates and a standard-bearer for Piedmont. The family business was transformed in the 1960s when Angelo Gaja took the helm, introducing a relentless focus on quality, lower yields and estate-bottled wines. His innovations – from green harvesting and higher-density planting to single-vineyard bottlings such as Sorì San Lorenzo, Sorì Tildin and Costa Russi – helped elevate Barbaresco to the same global stature…