The Hills of Gavi, in the province of Alessandria, introduce evocative history and landscapes several and that space in a territory set amit Novi Ligure, Ovada, Serravalle Scrivia and the first Appennine mountains.
A white wine of great tradition, product in the hillside vineyards of eleven communal cities scattered around to the village of Gavi, with more than thousand hectares of grape cultivations. Eleven cities, rich in castles and history, stretched along the Postumia road, the ancient roman way that it connected Liguria to Piemonte.
Gavi, with its fortress that watch from the high and its history that it tells of Roman, Byizant and Arab dominations. The Colline di Gavi are set along an Appennine road rich in forests and fortifications, among which they detach the castle of Doria di Mernese and the tower of Albarola and on the road tor Acqui Terme the beautiful Molare and Cremolino castles.
The wind that comes from the close Ligurian sea blows between the coast mounts and it catches up the valleys with the vineyards bringing the mild climate idela to obtain a great white wine, pale but alive and healthy, the famous Cortese di Gavi.
In 1998 the Gavi wine has obtained the acknowledgment of the Docg, with its 'esuberante' acidity and its rich aromas of fruit and flowers, which they have given proof of being an attending wine for its history. Furthermore, it has demonstrated to be able to age tn a great elegance and class, maintaining a fresh natural acidity and the intense yielded notes. A champion, even if small enough for its dimension, less than 60 wine producers, but high for quality and traditions.
Sure it is to Gavi where s' it meets the greater part of the filari to espalier of grapes kind, where they produce every year more than nine million than bottles, of which beyond the half it comes sold to the foreign country, like in Germany, Great Britain and United States. The happened one of the Kind one of Gavi is closely gradevole legacy to its vitigno that it already produces a wine from endured and able to develop in the years a taste and a typical scent with the aging.
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