2020 Gaiun Martinenga Barbaresco

The 2020 Barbaresco Riserva Martinenga Gaiun is gorgeous. Deep, ample and creamy, the 2022 possesses notable depth and fine balance. This is an especially open-knit, expressive young Gaiun. Readers will have a hard time keeping their hands off this jewel of a wine. Red cherry fruit, star anise, blood orange, mint and spice open gradually in the glass. The 2020 spent two years in French oak. There's a bit less new wood impact here than in the past, which works well.

- Antonio Galloni (12/2024)

This is broad, with its cherry, plum, earth, menthol and spice flavors riding a wave of refined tannins. There's a little heat in the balance and a rigid finish, with fine dimension and a beam of fruit poking through in the end. Best from 2027 through 2043. 667 cases made.

- B.S.

A little more robust and richer on the finish, the Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Gresy 2020 Barbaresco Riserva Gaiun Martinenga offers aromas of cooked cherry and plum. This wine offers a darker fruit profile compared to the others, and it also shows greater structural support. There is a firm, mineral note of iron or rust that should dissolve beautifully as this wine continues its bottle aging. Production is 8,000 bottles.

- Monica Larner (01/2025)