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2005 Gaja Alteni de Brassica Langhe
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2005 Gaja Alteni de Brassica Langhe

Producer: Gaja
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Sauvignon Blanc
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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89 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2007

($80; 100% sauvignon blanc) Full yellow. Pungent grapefruit and mineral aromas, with very ripe pineapple syrup and leesy notes quickly emerging. Fat, sweet and densely packed, with a saline quality adding interest to the pineapple and grapefruit flavors. The persistent finish shows a slightly tannic quality. Gaja's sauvignon blanc needs time in bottle, normally revealing a tropical fruit character with four or five years of aging and getting more minerally a few years after that.

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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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Sauvignon Blanc

For all of its name recognition and reputation for high-quality plantings and bottlings, Sauvignon Blanc has never been represented in lists or discussions of the spectacular wines of the world. But just because wines made from Sauvignon Blanc are rarely crafted for extended cellaring and don't command staggering sums in international auctions doesn't mean that...



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