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Majestic's own-label Gavi, made by the Araldica cooperative at its La Battistina estate between Gavi and Novi Ligure. All Cortese, kept in tank until bottling: clean apple and pear, lemon, a herby finish. £14.50, or £10.50 in a mixed six.
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Apple and pear first, lemon and lime behind, and a faint almond touch in older bottles. Light, very dry and fresh at 12%, with no oak.
Apple and pear first, clean and clear. Then lemon and lime, and a faint almond touch that shows in older vintages.
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HoneyLight, very dry and fresh at 12%, with crisp acidity and no oak at all. The wine goes from tank to bottle, so the fruit stays clean and the texture stays lean. A herby, slightly bitter edge on the finish is typical of Cortese.
Short to moderate, clean and citrussy, ending on that herby bitterness.
Majestic's house Gavi, made by the Araldica cooperative that fifty growers founded with a village priest in 1954. A well-liked everyday white. Drink it cold and young, with seafood or pesto.
Majestic is the only shop selling it, at £14.50 a bottle or £10.50 each in any mixed six. The 2025 is on the shelf under a screwcap, and nine of the ten customers who have reviewed it would buy it again.
Four scores out of ten. It rates highest for someone new to Italian wine, then with food, then as an everyday bottle, and well on value at £10.50 in a mixed six.
Clean, dry, light and sealed with a screwcap. A safe first Italian white at £10.50 in a mixed six.
Shellfish, pesto, white fish, cured meat and fried starters all fit. Only red meat and chilli do not.
At £10.50 in a mixed six and 12%, this is a weeknight white.
£14.50 alone is ordinary for a Gavi di Gavi; £10.50 in a mixed six is a good price for the real thing.
A pleasant, correct Gavi under an own-label. Not a bottle that marks an event.
Made in tank for freshness. Drink it within two or 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.
The 2025 is the vintage on sale, at 12% on the label; other listings of the wine give 12.5%. Araldica keeps it in tank until bottling, so it is a white to drink young.
The 2025 is the vintage on the Majestic shelf, at 12%. Araldica keeps the wine in tank until bottling to hold its freshness, so drink it within two or three years of the harvest.
The 2025 is the vintage on the Majestic shelf, at 12%. Araldica keeps the wine in tank until bottling to hold its freshness, so drink it within two or three years of the harvest.
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.
The Gavi DOCG covers all or part of eleven towns in the province of Alessandria, thirty kilometres from the sea on the edge of the Ligurian hills. Gavi di Gavi means the grapes grew in the town of Gavi itself. Araldica makes this one at La Battistina, on the road from Gavi to Novi Ligure.
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.
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Araldica began in 1954 as fifty growers pooling their grapes at Castel Boglione and is now a group with several estates. Scale like that spreads the cost of the winery and the sales team across a lot of wine.
Araldica keeps the wine in tank until bottling. No barrels to buy and no stock waiting in a cellar.
Gavi di Gavi may only use grapes grown in the town of Gavi, one of eleven towns in the DOCG. Land there is the dearest in the zone, and La Battistina grows Cortese and nothing else.
Majestic sells it at £14.50 alone and £10.50 a bottle in any six. The shop's discount, not the winery, sets the low end of the price.
A 12% wine carries about £2.75 of duty on the February 2026 rates, and VAT takes a fifth of the price. Roughly £5.15 of the £14.50 is tax, and about £4.50 of the £10.50.
Dishes that go with this wine
Seafood, shellfish and pasta with pesto first, then starters, lean fish and cured meat. Light, fresh, salty food is the thread.
Seafood and shellfish are the first match. A dry, lean white with crisp acidity does the job a squeeze of lemon does on a plate of mussels.
Try with: Impepata di cozze · Fregula ai frutti di mare · Cozze arraganate · Polpo alla pignata · More pairings →
Pasta with pesto is a natural match: Gavi sits only thirty kilometres from the Ligurian coast. The wine's herby edge meets basil and olive oil head on, and its freshness cuts the richness of the cheese and pine nuts.
Try with: Trofie al pesto · Focaccia Genovese · Focaccia di Recco · Torta pasqualina · More pairings →
Lean fish suits it. A light, delicate fish needs a light, delicate wine, and this one is exactly that at 12% with no oak.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · Polenta e schie · Brodetto alla giuliese · Baccala a Ciuredda · More pairings →
Cured meat suits this wine. Salt makes a lean white taste rounder and fruitier, and there is no tannin here to turn bitter against it.
Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Gnocco fritto · Crescia · Peperoni Cruschi · More pairings →
Fried food leaves oil on the palate, and crisp acidity washes it off between bites. A cold, lean Gavi is the classic glass for a plate of fried things.
Try with: Arancini · Pizza Fritta · Frittata di maccheroni · Fish and Chips · More pairings →
A light, dry white like this vanishes next to steak or braised beef. Hot chilli does the reverse and makes the wine taste thin and sour. Keep it for fish, vegetables and pasta.
Skip with: Fiorentina steak · Brasato al Barolo · Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
Made in tank for freshness and bottled under a screwcap. Drink it within two or three years of the harvest, well chilled. There is nothing to gain from waiting.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Pour it straight from the bottle.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Made in tank for freshness. Drink it within two or three years.
£14.50 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Majestic, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from published drinker ratings, 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 · MediumAraldica, the Piedmont cooperative that fifty growers founded in 1954 under a village priest, don Carlo Montrucchio. It makes this Gavi at its La Battistina estate on the road between Gavi and Novi Ligure, an estate of Cortese vines only.
That the grapes come from the town of Gavi itself, not just the wider zone. The Gavi DOCG covers all or part of eleven towns in the province of Alessandria, and only wine from the town of Gavi may add its name twice.
Cortese, on its own. The first vineyards planted only with Cortese went in at Gavi in 1856, on estates owned by the Marquis Cambiaso, according to the Gavi consortium.
Clean apple and pear, then lemon and lime, with a herby, faintly bitter finish. It is light and very dry at 12%, a well-liked everyday white.
Seafood, shellfish and pasta with pesto first. Lean fish, starters and cured meat work too.
£14.50 a bottle at Majestic, or £10.50 a bottle when you buy any six wines. It is a Majestic exclusive in the UK.
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