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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.34
12 bottles: $17.42
An organoleptic analysis of La Mesma Gavi firstly offers us its delightful, straw colour, reinforced by the delicate...
White
750ml
Bottle: $26.94
12 bottles: $26.40
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.67 $24.08
12 bottles: $17.49
APPEARANCE: Light straw. NOSE: Typical of Gavi, fine and pleasently fresh. PALATE: Delicate, very dry, characterized...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $34.93 $35.99
12 bottles: $34.23
This has aromas of sliced apples, fresh pears, lemons and melon. Creamy and fresh with a light to medium body and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.94
12 bottles: $18.56
Tenuous straw-yellow color with greenish reflections. An intense and fine odor with persistent fruity and flowery...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $27.87
A pale straw yellow color, with an immediate nose of white blossoms, chamomile, ripe peach and citrus fruit. On the...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.94
12 bottles: $24.44
A light-bodied, fruity red, with an earthy aroma giving way to strawberry and rose flavors. Features a lining of firm...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.05
12 bottles: $16.71
This wine is obtained by smoothly pressing the Cortese grapes grown in the villages of Gavi and Novi Ligure. Gavi is...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $13.80
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.32
100% Cortese. The perfect white to stock your fridge with when friends and family come over. Beautiful apricot and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.94 $14.30
12 bottles: $12.68
100% Cortese. The grapes used in this classic example of Gavi grew in the shadow of “Il Forte,” the iconic...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.90
Straw yellow with slightly greenish reflections. Intense scents of white flowers and fruit exacerbated by a delicate...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.23
Intense ruby red colour with garnet reflections in more mature wines. Aromas of rose and geranium. Still wine,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $14.73
Made from 100% Cortese grapes, this delicious white is both soft and crisp. With a pleasant stony minerality, this...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $22.69 $24.40
12 bottles: $22.42
uby-red color, Freisa has a floral and fruity aroma of concentrated berries and tar with hints of blackberry. It is a...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.95
12 bottles: $27.39
If you want to channel your inner Italian, chill a bottle of this quaffable, light-bodied, and botanical red and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $57.49
6 bottles: $56.35
The Monterotondo is the Villa Sparina Cru obtained from rich, complex grapes from a historic, favourably exposed part...
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White
375ml
Bottle: $12.94 $13.87
12 bottles: $12.68
A tangy and fresh Gavi full of sliced apples, lemon zest and stones. Medium-bodied and textured on the palate with...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.93 $18.80
12 bottles: $17.42
The Gavi DOCG del Comune di Gavi has always been integral to the historic identity of Villa Sparina. It is a great...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $45.00
The 2013 Langhe Freisa Kyè is remarkably polished and, dare I say, elegant, in this vintage. The bombastic style of...
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The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.

There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.