Wine Spectator's No. 9 Wine of 2024 When Aldo Vaira took over his family’s Nebbiolo vineyards in Barolo in 1968, he was just 15 years old, and the vineyards were nearly 100. Now joined by his family, ...
Back home in Piedmont, Gaja cut yields dramatically in his vineyards, and he stopped buying grapes, slashing production in favor of high quality ripe fruit. He experimented with French grapes, hoping ...