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🇮🇹 From Gaja · Barbaresco · Piedmont · Italy

Gaja, Barbaresco, Costa Russi

Red · Barbaresco DOCG / Langhe (single vineyard) · first vintage on our lists 1978

Poured at 196 of the world's top restaurant lists in 19 countries, across 34 vintages from 1978 to 2022, with 282 realized lots at auction.

Where it's poured
196 rooms in 113 cities across 19 countries, from the lists we read. Dots sized by rooms pouring.
113 cities
The map · 97 US rooms in 57 cities
New York 11Las Vegas 5Boston 5Washington 5Seattle 4Charleston 4Houston 3

Every dot is a city where we read a list pouring Gaja, Barbaresco, Costa Russi; dot size is the number of rooms.

The vintages
34 vintages on the world's lists, 1978 to 2022, plus a non-vintage bottling. Pick a dot: size is rooms pouring, colour is age — under 15 years · mature · 25 and older. The from price is the lowest bottle price we've read on a list.
Rooms · from price
198019902000201020202022 · 2 rooms2021 · 16 rooms2020 · 31 rooms2019 · 1 room2017 · 21 rooms2016 · 34 rooms2015 · 20 rooms2014 · 25 rooms2013 · 32 rooms2011 · 16 rooms2010 · 15 rooms2009 · 9 rooms2008 · 12 rooms2007 · 9 rooms2006 · 16 rooms2005 · 9 rooms2004 · 8 rooms2003 · 9 rooms2001 · 12 rooms2000 · 14 rooms1999 · 11 rooms1998 · 15 rooms1997 · 14 rooms1996 · 5 rooms1995 · 9 rooms1993 · 10 rooms1990 · 9 rooms1989 · 3 rooms1988 · 4 rooms1987 · 1 room1986 · 1 room1985 · 7 rooms1982 · 1 room1978 · 3 rooms2016 · 34 rooms
201634 rooms pour it · from $400 on a list · most poured in Charleston · median at auction $478The 34 rooms
At auction
282 realized lots across the houses we read. Prices per 750ml, premium inclusive, converted at sale-date rates.
The full record →
Jun 2015Dots are real salesApr 2026

The 2000, 26 sales. Dots are real sales.

$279
Median at auction, per 750ml
×4.3
$1,200
Median on a restaurant list
12.9%
Twelve months, at auction
From the house
The rest of the Gaja canon, and where the house stands.
Reach · auction high
Barbaresco · Piedmont · Italy26 wines in the canonranked 1 of 248 Piedmont producers by rooms pouring
poured at 506 rooms
$875high at auction
poured at 245 rooms
$717high at auction
poured at 210 rooms
$956high at auction
One wine, crosswalked to the world's top restaurant lists and 282 auction lots · Most listed · How we count
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