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Marchese Luca Spinola

Marchese Luca Spinola

Marchese Luca Spinola is the Spinola family's wine estate at Cascina Massimiliana in Rovereto di Gavi. Andrea Spinola took it over in 2006, after leaving a corporate career in Milan, and built it up vineyard by vineyard with oenologist Vincenzo Munì and agronomist Davide Ferrarese. The vines stand around 200 metres above sea level and the whole range is organic Cortese: two Gavi del Comune di Gavi (Massimiliano, fermented in barrique, and the lighter Carlo), a Gavi del Comune di Tassarolo, a cloudy ancestral-method frizzante called Marchese col fondo, and a Gavi Metodo Classico. The estate also makes a KLBD-certified Kosher version of Carlo, which it describes as the first Kosher Gavi. About 80 percent of the wine is exported. Gavi lies in the south-east corner of Piemonte, in the province of Alessandria, and the grape here is Cortese; the DOCG was granted in 1998.

At a glance

Region
Gavi, Piemonte, Italy
Address
Località Cascina Massimiliana 97, 15066 Rovereto di Gavi (AL)
Winemaker
Vincenzo Munì
Tours
Not listed
Tastings
Available
Wines listed
5
Website
https://www.marcheselucaspinola.it/site/?lang=en

Visits & tastings

The estate welcomes visitors, many of them importers, sommeliers and travellers, and has hosted open-air tastings in autumn. No fixed visit programme or prices are published, so contact the winery to arrange a visit.

Good to know

  • Visits are arranged directly with the estate; no booking page is listed

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Wines from Marchese Luca Spinola

  • Carlo: Gavi del Comune di Gavi DOCG, Cortese 100%, White. The estate's "classic" Gavi, 100% Cortese from the municipality of Gavi. Organic, 13.5% alcohol, 25,000 bottles. A second version is made with the Kosher method under KLBD certification.
  • Gavi del Comune di Tassarolo: Gavi del Comune di Tassarolo DOCG, Cortese, White. A still organic Gavi made only from grapes grown in the municipality of Tassarolo, the estate's newest label. The bottle label shows a view of the local countryside.
  • Gavi Metodo Classico: Gavi Metodo Classico DOCG, Cortese, Sparkling. Traditional-method sparkling Gavi, organic, disgorged after at least 24 months on the lees.
  • Marchese col fondo: Vino Frizzante, Cortese 100%, Sparkling. Cloudy, lightly sparkling 100% Cortese from Tassarolo, made by the ancestral method with no filtration. Organic, 13.5% alcohol, batches of 1,000 bottles.
  • Massimiliano: Gavi del Comune di Gavi DOCG, Cortese 100%, White. The estate's flagship Gavi, 100% Cortese from the municipality of Gavi, fermented in barrique. Organic, 14.5% alcohol, made in batches of 3,000 bottles.