Gaja - Costa Russi - Barbaresco - 1998 | Italian Red Wine

A “costa” is the side of a hill that faces the sun; “Russi” is the nickname of the former owners of this vineyard, which was then acquired in 1967 by Gaja family.Until 1995 Costa Russi carried the Barbaresco D.O.C.G. appellation. Beginning with the 1996 vintage, as with all of Gaja’s single-vineyard wines, it bears the Langhe Nebbiolo D.O.C. appellation. The only d.o.c.g. wine produced by Gaja is the family’s flagship Barbaresco. The Gaja single-vineyard philosophy remains the same as it has always been: to express the extraordinary quality potential of each vineyard site in order to produce wines of distinctive personality and unique, inimitable character.