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2023 Berry Bros. & Rudd Gavi di Gavi by Roberto Sarotto, Piedmont, Italy

  • White
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Cortese
Ready - at best
Product: 20238117656
2023 Berry Bros. & Rudd Gavi di Gavi by Roberto Sarotto, Piedmont, Italy

Description

The Gavi di Gavi area is the traditional centre of this region, celebrated for its exceptional white wines. Made from the Cortese grape, Gavi wines are generally light, with alcohol levels between 12 and 13%, and are known for their bright acidity and lively citrus flavours. Like this wine, they are typically unoaked, offering a refreshing alternative to a crisp Pinot Grigio. Created by the Sarotto family for us, this wine is an ideal match for seafood pasta or asparagus dishes. 

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Tasting Note

The 2023 vintage was ideal for Gavi. The Cortese grape benefitted from the warmth of the year while still retaining its characteristic elegance and freshness, aided by the area’s calcareous soils. The palate is beautifully expressive, with sweet, crisp apple, ripe pear and peach skin. This is underscored by bounding, zippy acidity and a refreshing chalky bite. This is a quintessential Northern Italian white.

Drink 2024 - 2028

Davy Zyw, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Cortese
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Roberto Sarotto, Piedmont

About this wine

Cortese

This white grape produces wines in the appellations of Cortese dell'Alto Monferrato, Colli Tortonesi as well as the DOCG wine of Gavi di Gavi. Cortese is a native grape variety of Alessandria in Piedmont and tends to perform best in the hills between Novi and Tortona in Piedmont. The grape has been so successful in Gavi (which is located in the south of Piedmont close to Liguria) that it is known there as Cortese di Gavi.
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Gavi

Gavi

Gavi di Gavi (aka Cortese di Gavi) is a famous white wine DOCG zone in Piedmont, Italy. The 1,200-hectare vineyard area surrounds the city of Gavi itself. Cortese, Piedmont’s finest white grape, is at the heart of Gavi di Gavi and is distinguished by its crisp, floral, peachy, aromatic qualities. The wines are best enjoyed young.
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Roberto Sarotto, Piedmont

Located close to the town of Gavi, in the frazione Zerbetta, at 260 metres above sea level on ancient Miocene sedimentary marne/tufo soils that are identical to those found in the Langhe to the north, Roberto & Aurora Sarotto’s 12ha Tenuta Manenti estate is perfectly placed to grow exquisite Cortese grapes for their fine Gavi del Comune di Gavi wines; the nutrient poor white soils focussing Cortese’s energy into the fruit, not the leaves.
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