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Ascheri Giacomo
A dry white from Piedmont, made only from Cortese grown on Gavi's own land. Ascheri keep it out of wood, so you get lemon, pear and a salty, stony finish. Drink it cold with fish, shellfish or a plate of antipasti.
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Ascheri ferment this Cortese for fifteen days at 18 degrees and never put it near a barrel. Below is what that leaves in the glass, checked against 578 Vivino reviews and Decanter's note on the 2024.
Pale straw with a green tint, and the smell arrives fast. Lemon and grapefruit come first, then acacia and hawthorn blossom. Ascheri ferment the juice for fifteen days at 18 degrees and keep it out of wood, so nothing sits between you and the fruit. Vivino drinkers back this up: citrus is the note they log most, in 255 of 578 reviews.
Grapefruit
Lemon
Acacia
Apple blossom
Apple
Peach
Pear
Wet stones
AlmondDry and light on its feet, with the acidity you expect from a grape picked in the middle of September. Yellow apple, pear and white peach fill the middle, then it turns savoury. The 2024 came in at 12.5% alcohol with 5.75 grams of acid a litre, which is why it tastes brisk rather than soft. There is no oak flavour at all, because the wine spends only three months in steel tanks.
The finish is short but clean, and it leaves a salty, stony trace on the tongue. Decanter scored the 2024 ninety points and called the tension striking.
This is the everyday white of a house better known for Barolo, and it is named after Cristina Ascheri, who runs the family's white wines. Drink it cold in its first two or three years, with food rather than on its own. Across 2,706 Vivino ratings it holds a steady 3.9, praised for freshness and never for weight.
Two UK shops list this wine today: £18.31 for the 2025 and £22 for the 2024. That is right on the middle price of the 24 Gavi wines we list, so you are paying the going rate for the name.
Six scores, on the same scale for every bottle on the site. This one does well on food and on ease. It does badly on cellaring, because Gavi has no ageing rule and this wine sees no wood.
A pure Cortese with no oak, no sweetness and nothing odd about it, at a price that does not punish a first try.
Sharp acid, low alcohol and a salty finish make this one of the easier whites to put on a table of fish, fried food or antipasti.
Under £20, ready the moment you open it and light enough for a weeknight, which is exactly how Ascheri pitch their white range.
At £18.31 it lands within pennies of the middle price of the 24 Gavi wines listed here, so you pay the going rate and no more.
It is a DOCG wine from the historic heart of the zone, but at £18 and 12.5% alcohol it is too quiet to carry a celebration on its own.
Gavi carries no ageing rule and this one sees only three months in steel, so Ascheri themselves cap it at two to three years.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Gavi/Cortese di Gavi denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Ascheri publish a harvest report every year. They call 2024 a wet, unhurried season that gave whites less sugar and good acid. They call 2025 a hot summer rescued by cold September nights.
A hot summer, with a spell near 40 degrees from late July, then a dry and stable September that saved it. Nights fell to 8 degrees while days stayed around 21, and Ascheri say that range gave their whites both aroma and crisp acid without pushing the alcohol up.
Ascheri describe 2024 as a wet, unhurried year. Rain in late spring and through the summer kept the heat off, so picking ran to the usual September dates. Their whites came in with less sugar than recent years but a good acid balance, which shows here as 12.5% alcohol and a brisk, lean finish.
A hot summer, with a spell near 40 degrees from late July, then a dry and stable September that saved it. Nights fell to 8 degrees while days stayed around 21, and Ascheri say that range gave their whites both aroma and crisp acid without pushing the alcohol up.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Gavi DOCG covers eleven villages in the south-east corner of Piedmont. A grower may add the words 'del comune di Gavi' only when every grape comes from Gavi's own land. It is the strictest version of the name.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Gavi/Cortese di Gavi is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Gavi/Cortese di Gavi falls within Piedmont, covering Alessandria.
Made at Ascheri Giacomo, Bra.
The label rule shuts Ascheri out of the other ten villages in the zone, so they cannot buy cheaper fruit down the valley to fill the tank.
There is no oak to buy and no cellar to fill for years. The wine is bottled the spring after picking, which is why it costs a fifth of an Ascheri Barolo.
Gavi rules cap the crop at 9.5 tonnes a hectare and bar the damp valley floor, so growers pick less fruit off harder, hillier ground.
Duty on a still white is £2.67 a bottle and VAT adds £3.05 at this price. That is £5.72 of the £18.31 gone before the wine, the glass or the freight is paid for.
Ascheri's money and reputation sit in Barolo from Serralunga and La Morra. The Gavi is Cristina Ascheri's white line, priced to sell by the case rather than to chase a score.
Ascheri's own advice is to drink it with whatever you like. The useful version: 12.5% alcohol and brisk acid make it a partner for salt, fat and fried batter, and a poor one for chilli heat.
Shellfish is salty and a little sweet, and it needs acid to stay lively. This Gavi carries 5.8 grams of acid a litre and only 12.5% alcohol, so it lifts the shellfish instead of covering it. A soft, low-acid white would make the same plate taste flat.
Try with: Fregula ai frutti di mare · Impepata di cozze · Cozze arraganate · Gnocco fritto · More pairings →
Salt cod hits hard on salt and on texture. The salty, stony finish that Gavi grows on Gavi's white clay soils meets it head on, rather than fighting it with fruit. Drink it cold, at 8 to 10 degrees, as Ascheri advise on the back label.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · Baccala alla cosentina · Polenta e schie · More pairings →
Tuna sauce and mayonnaise coat the tongue. The acid here strips that coating between bites, so the veal tastes clean again. It is the Piedmont answer to a Piedmont dish, and it works because the wine has no oak sweetness to add to the sauce.
Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Gnocco fritto · Peperoni Cruschi · More pairings →
Gavi sits less than an hour from Genoa, and the city has drawn on these vineyards since at least 972. The acacia and hawthorn notes here run alongside basil and pine nut rather than across them. The same trick works on bitter greens, where the citrus takes the edge off.
Try with: Trofie al pesto · Orecchiette con cime di rapa · Ciceri e tria · More pairings →
This is a light wine, so it needs a light plate. Steel-aged Cortese has no weight to throw at a dish, which is why it suits a simple risotto or a grilled fillet. Vivino drinkers put shellfish, pasta and lean fish at the top of their own pairing list for it.
Try with: Squid ink risotto · Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Steamed sea bass · More pairings →
Chilli burns hotter next to a sharp, dry white, and there is no sugar here to cool it. A slow meat ragu is the other miss: it wants tannin and body, and this wine has neither. Save both plates for a red.
Skip with: Kerala prawn curry · Pasta arrabbiata · Ragu alla bolognese · Tandoori prawns · Pairing guide →
Ascheri say two to three years in a cool dark place. A German specialist retailer lists the 2024 as good to 2028 and the 2025 to 2029. This is a wine to drink, not to store.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Gavi carries no ageing rule and this one sees only three months in steel, so Ascheri themselves cap it at two to three years.
£18.31 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumIt means every grape was grown inside the village of Gavi itself. Gavi DOCG covers eleven villages in the province of Alessandria. The rules let a grower name one of them only when all the fruit comes from that village's land. It is the tightest version of the name, and Ascheri put it on the front label.
Cortese, and nothing else. The DOCG rules allow no other grape, so every bottle of Gavi is a pure Cortese. It is a Piedmont white grape that gives lemon, green apple and a salty edge rather than perfume.
Dry, light and sharp. You get lemon and grapefruit first, then yellow apple, pear and white peach, and a salty, stony finish. Ascheri keep the wine in steel for three months and never use barrels, so there is no oak or vanilla flavour in it.
Fish and shellfish first: mussels, seafood pasta, fried fish and salt cod. The acidity also cuts through pesto and through the tuna sauce on vitello tonnato. Serve it at 8 to 10 degrees. Skip it with chilli heat and with red meat in a long-cooked sauce.
Two to three years, which is what Ascheri themselves advise. In practice that means the 2024 is good to about 2028 and the 2025 to about 2029, kept somewhere cool and dark. Gavi has no ageing rule, so nothing is gained by waiting.
Between about £18 and £22 for a 75cl bottle at the UK shops we list. That sits right on the middle price of the Gavi wines on this site, so you are paying the going rate rather than a premium for the village name.
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