{"id":2179,"date":"2015-02-21T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/21\/report-from-tasting-at-pieve-santa-restituta-gaja\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:07:30","slug":"report-from-tasting-at-pieve-santa-restituta-gaja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/21\/report-from-tasting-at-pieve-santa-restituta-gaja\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from: Tasting at Pieve Santa Restituta (Gaja)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2176\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Gaja_Brunello.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/>(February 20, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> One of the great things about being in Italy is being so near to some of the greatest wine estates in the world &#8211; even better, is being invited to taste at one of them.&nbsp; This was the case when I was invited to taste the new (and some older) wines with Angelo Gaja&#8217;s daughter, Gaia Gaja, at the estate in Montalcino (acquired in 1994).<\/p>\n<p>The property is 16 hectares of planted vineyards and 40 hectares of woods and produces only three wines:&nbsp; Brunello, Rennina and Sugarille (still all Brunellos).&nbsp; The philosophy is a minimalist approach of less wood so all wines spend 2 years in oak, 2 years in concrete tanks and a year in bottle (on average) before release.&nbsp; In 2007, the estate holding increased by 9 hectares as a parcel of land to the north in <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2177\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Gaja_Rennina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/>the region of Torrenieri was purchased.<\/p>\n<p>The estate is build around Pieve (church) Santa Restituta, one of the first Christian women martyrs.&nbsp; Alas she is not as popular a saint as she once was and only 4 churches remain dedicated to remembering her name &#8230; the church was founded in the 4th century A.D.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.it\/2015\/02\/report-from-tasting-at-pieve-santa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Gaja_Sugarille.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Click here to see the pictorial evidence of the visit and reviews of the wines tasted.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(February 20, 2015) &#8230; One of the great things about being in Italy is being so near to some of the greatest wine estates in the world &#8211; even better, is being invited to taste at one of them.&nbsp; This was the case when I was invited to taste the new (and some older) wines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}