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Dezzani
Dezzani's Gavi DOCG is a fresh, dry Piedmontese white from 100% Cortese grown on Gavi-zone hillsides. Straw yellow with peach, green almond and cut hay, it finishes mineral and saline. Serve at 10 to 12C as an aperitivo or with seafood.
Dezzani picks Cortese by hand on Gavi-zone hillsides in Alessandria, ferments it cold in stainless steel and holds the wine six months in bottle before release. Across 464 Vivino ratings it averages 3.9, with drinkers naming lemon, green apple and stony minerality. The producer's own note points to white peach, almond and just-cut hay.
Straw yellow with green glints in the glass. The nose is delicate and orchard-led: white peach and green almond over Dezzani's signature note of just-cut hay and fresh blossom. Across 464 Vivino ratings drinkers add lemon and lime zest.
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HoneyFresh, light and dry at 12.5 percent, with citrus and green-apple acidity carrying stony, saline minerality. The cold-soak, stainless-steel vinification keeps it crunchy and unoaked, sapid rather than rich.
The finish is short to medium, saline and clean, with a bitter-almond twist that is classic Cortese. It leaves the palate dry and refreshed.
A dependable, well-made Gavi for the price: crisp, saline and ready to drink now. Vivino's 3.9 from 464 ratings matches its billing as a reliable seafood-and-aperitivo Cortese, not a wine to cellar. Drink within two years of the vintage.
Scored against six uses, Dezzani Gavi is strongest with food and as an easy everyday pour, and weakest for the cellar. At 12.5 percent and built to drink within two years, it is a fridge-door aperitivo and seafood white rather than a wine to lay down or save for a milestone.
Built for the table: citrus acidity and a saline finish make Gavi a natural with seafood, antipasti and vitello tonnato.
At 12.5 percent and fridge-ready, it is a genuine midweek aperitivo and seafood pour rather than a bottle you save.
Light, dry and unoaked, Dezzani Gavi is an easy first step into Piedmontese white wine with no tannin or oak to decode.
A dependable aperitivo for a crowd, but its modest, everyday profile makes it a supporting wine rather than a centrepiece.
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.
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Cortese from Gavi is an early-drinking style, and Dezzani gives this one just two years of aging potential from the vintage. The house releases each year after six months in bottle, so the wine reaches shops fresh. Vivino's most-rated years are 2021 and 2022; the 2025 is the current release. Chill it and drink it young.
A drink-young Cortese: Dezzani gives it just two years of aging potential from the vintage and releases it after six months in bottle, so it reaches shops fresh and crisp.
A drink-young Cortese: Dezzani gives it just two years of aging potential from the vintage and releases it after six months in bottle, so it reaches shops fresh and crisp.
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, or Cortese di Gavi, sits in the DOCG tier, Italy's top rung, which caps yields and requires an official tasting before release. The wine must be 100 percent Cortese grown in a defined zone around Gavi in the province of Alessandria. Dezzani, based up in Cocconato d'Asti, sources its fruit from those hillsides rather than its home Monferrato slopes.
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 Piedmont.
Gavi is an aperitivo and seafood white first. Its 12.5 percent frame, citrus acidity and saline finish lift shellfish, lean fish and delicate primi without smothering them. The regional call is vitello tonnato, a cold Piedmontese antipasto whose tuna-caper sauce needs exactly this kind of fresh, low-oak Cortese. Skip it with chilli heat.
The cold veal's tuna, caper and anchovy sauce is rich and salty; Gavi's fresh Cortese acidity and 12.5 percent lightness cut straight through it. This is the textbook Piedmontese aperitivo pairing.
Try with: Vitello Tonnato · More pairings →
Briny cuttlefish and squid ink need a saline, citrus-edged white. Gavi's stony minerality and lemon lift echo the sea rather than fight it, and its light body will not bury the rice.
Try with: Squid ink risotto · More pairings →
Whipped salt cod is creamy and salty. Gavi's crisp acidity slices the emulsion clean while its own saline finish runs with the cod, a natural lean-fish match on Vivino too.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · More pairings →
The wine's green-almond and cut-hay notes bridge basil, pine nut and Parmesan in Ligurian pesto. Dezzani's own kitchen notes list trofie al pesto, and Gavi is Liguria's natural neighbour white.
Try with: Trofie al pesto · More pairings →
Thin Ligurian focaccia oozing soft stracchino is delicate, not heavy. Gavi's light 12.5 percent frame and citrus freshness match it as an aperitivo without overwhelming the cheese.
Try with: Focaccia di Recco · More pairings →
Chilli heat flattens a delicate, low-alcohol Cortese like this and turns its citrus sharp. Save Gavi for gentler dishes and reach for a fuller southern white when the pan is fired up with peperoncino or nduja.
Skip with: Penne all'arrabbiata · Nduja pasta · Pairing guide →
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Not a keeper: Dezzani gives it two years of aging potential, so this is a drink-young white rather than a cellar wine.
Notes published by the producer, quoted with attribution.
Confidence · HighFrom 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 · MediumDezzani Gavi DOCG is 100 percent Cortese, the native white grape of the Gavi zone in the province of Alessandria, south-east Piedmont. Gavi, also labelled Cortese di Gavi, allows no other variety.
It is a fresh, dry, light white: straw yellow with green glints, scented with white peach, green almond and just-cut hay, and finishing mineral and saline. Across 464 Vivino ratings it averages 3.9, with drinkers naming lemon, green apple and stony minerality.
Serve it as an aperitivo or with seafood and antipasti. Its citrus acidity and saline finish suit shellfish, squid ink risotto, whipped salt cod and the Piedmontese classic vitello tonnato. Avoid chilli-heavy dishes, which flatten its delicate frame.
Drink it young. Dezzani lists an aging potential of two years from the vintage, and the wine is released after six months in bottle, so it reaches shops ready to enjoy. Chill it to 10 to 12C.
In the UK it is tracked around £15.56 a bottle in six-packs, against roughly 9 euros on Italian shelves. It is 12.5 percent alcohol and sealed under natural cork.
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