{"id":153761,"date":"2026-04-20T01:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/?post_type=product&p=153761"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:02:43","slug":"1990-gaja-barolo-sperss","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/product\/1990-gaja-barolo-sperss\/","title":{"rendered":"1990 Gaja, Barolo SPERSS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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95 \/100 RobertParker.com, Drink Date: 2010 – 2030<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gaja\u2019s 1990 Barolo Sperss is a sweet, seamless beauty endowed with gorgeous fruit. The wine possesses superb inner perfume and purity even if it doesn\u2019t quite reach the level of Gaja\u2019s most successful wines in this vintage. Still, this is pure 1990 and pure Serralunga. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2030. Angelo Gaja\u2019s 1989s and 1990s are simply glorious. Gaja is frequently criticized, especially in Italy, a country that has an uneasy relationship with success of any kind. To be sure, Gaja likes to mix things up with views that are at times perhaps unnecessarily provocative. Prices have always been a point of contention among the estate\u2019s detractors, as even Gaja\u2019s father Giovanni sold his own wines at prices considered to be astronomical more than 50 years ago. At the end of the day, though, the only thing that counts is what is in the glass, and the simple truth is that these wines are utterly mind-blowing. Angelo Gaja had at least one big advantage vis-a-vis his neighbors. Gaja began working full-time at his family\u2019s winery in 1969, and was followed a year later in 1970 by oenologist Guido Rivella. By the time 1989 came around Gaja and Rivella had been working together for nearly 20 years, and were perfectly positioned to make the most of these two historic harvests, which they certainly did. Gaja was so far ahead of his time that there are plenty of producers in Piedmont (and Italy) that still haven\u2019t caught up to the groundbreaking wines he made 20 years ago. I have had many of Gaja\u2019s 1989s and 1990s recently in less formal settings and have never been anything less than deeply impressed.<\/p>\n

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95 \/100 RobertParker.com, Drink Date: 2010 – 2030 Gaja\u2019s 1990 Barolo Sperss is a sweet, seamless beauty endowed with gorgeous fruit. The wine possesses superb inner perfume and purity even if it doesn\u2019t quite reach the level of Gaja\u2019s most successful wines in this vintage. Still, this is pure 1990 and pure Serralunga. Anticipated maturity: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":153833,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[40,45,72],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-153761","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-italien","product_cat-piemont","product_cat-raritaeten","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/153761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=153761"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=153761"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traditional-wine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=153761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}