Appellation: DOCG
Description: Dry White
Vintages Available: 2006
Country: Italy
Region: Piedmont
Producer: La Giustiniana
The origins of this superb winery?, set in Rovereto of Gavi, on the Piedmont’s Apennines, are very ancient: already since 900 A.C. in the Annals of Republic of Genoa there was mention of a Benedectine settlement which was on the hills overlooking the river Lemme.
You can find news of the so-called “Grangia Bassignana� in a document of 1250. It was a farm belonging to the Abbey of Rivalta Scrivia which produced wheat, but above all wine. Of this original settlement only the watch and defence tower, the chapel and several rooms with vaults and capitals are still existing.
In 1625 the estate? was transferred to the Giustinianis, a member of whom, captain of Genoa’s troops, successfully defended the Fort of Gavi – once an important strategic, commercial and military place – from one of the many French sieges. At the time the Giustinianis themselves built the neoclassical villa which still today looks over the access of the estate which was called “Giustiniana� from the top of the hill.
The beauty of its landscape and uncontaminated nature as well as the positioning of the land - ideal for the production of excellent wines - induced the most important Genoese families, such as DOria, Spinola, Cambiaso, to contend with each other for the Giustiniana’s estate.
100% Cortese
Gavi, Rovereto Resort, Piedmont, Lugarara vineyards. The soil is made up of grey pliocene marns with loose sand. Guyot? breeding method, density of 4000 stocks and 28000 buds per ha.? Manual harvesting during the last week of September. Average yield? per ha is 6500kg of grapes.
It is refined and stabilised in stainless steel until bottling takes place.
Straw-yellow colour with a greenish hue. Subtle, persistent, scent of green? apples with complex? floral? undertones. Slightly acidic with an enticing almondy aftertaste?.
'The Wall Street Journal' July 2007
Best of tasting. A grown-up Gavi, with peaches, lychee, some spice and minerality, but all in a restrained, sophisticated package.
12% alcohol? vol.
It goes well with starters, fish or shellfish first and main courses, but for its characteristics it goes well also with fried food and mushrooms?. Excellent as an aperitif?.
Serving temperature: 10-12°C.
2 years in a cool cellar?.
Pack Size: 6 x 750 ml
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