Grapevine

On Monday, Angelo Gaja presents a tasting of eight of his wines at the Beverly Prescott Hotel in West Los Angeles.

For more than two decades, Italian wine producer Gaja has been the moving force behind Piedmont’s emergence as one of Italy’s greatest wine regions. With his stunning single-vineyard Barbarescos, made, like Barolo, from the region’s dark-berried Nebbiolo grape, and a Cabernet called Darmagi, Gaja focused the wine world’s attention on the tiny wine region in northwest Italy.

Monday’s tasting, hosted by Wally’s, is a chance for wine aficionados to meet gaja and to learn more about Piedmont, Barbaresco and Gaja’s distinctive wines. It will include a sneak preview of the 1993 Barbaresco “Sori San Lorenzo,” which will not be released until March 1997.

Beverly Prescott Hotel, 1224 S. Beverwil Drive, Los Angeles. Monday, 6:30 p.m. Reservations required; (310) 475-0606. $39.