White
Nuvole sul Poggio
By Il Poggio di Gavi, Gavi, Piemonte, Italy
The summer wine of the range: fresh, clear and pure, from a single south-east facing vineyard and best young.
Tasting notes
Yellow streaked with green highlights, with sage and marjoram, lime and bergamot, distant exotic yellow fruit. Apple on the palate, closing savoury, dry, decisive and linear.
Pairs well with
Raw fish, salt-baked white fish, eggs with asparagus, raw vegetables, pasta with pesto, vegetable tortelli, pumpkin risotto, mortadella sandwiches, ham tramezzini, summer salads with tuna and egg.
Technical details
- Style
- White
- Denomination
- Gavi DOCG
- Grape
- Cortese 100%
- Production area
- Single vineyard on the hills facing Novi Ligure (tech sheet: hills south of Novi Ligure), average altitude 280 m
- Soil
- Clayey-calcareous
- Exposure
- South-east
- Harvest
- Hand-picked in crates at full ripeness
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 4,200 vines/ha, yield 95 q/ha; under organic conversion, alternate-row grass cover, manure feeding, no leaf removal
- Vinification
- Soft pressing, temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel with selected yeasts, malolactic fermentation partly done, rest on fine lees until the spring after harvest, filtration and bottling. Alcohol 12.5%, residual sugar 3 g/l, total acidity 5.30 g/l.
- Serving temperature
- 8°C
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