Red to white: Piedmont's shifting focus

New Gaja vineyards in Trezzo Tinella.In 2015, top Piedmontese winery Gaja purchased 30ha at 650m in Trezzo Tinella, planting vines and building a new 250,000-bottle winery principally to vinify white grape varieties grown in the new vineyards.
While the new facility is only a 15-minute drive from Gaja’s 19th-century winery in the village of Barbaresco, the vineyards here can be as much as 4°C cooler.
Although the initiative is a response to the warming climate, it also represents a hug