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La Scolca Gavi dei Gavi

La Scolca
Grape
Cortese
Denomination
Gavi/Cortese di Gavi DOCG
Region
Piedmont
ABV
12%

La Scolca's Gavi dei Gavi Black Label is the benchmark Cortese of Rovereto di Gavi. It is 100% Cortese, aged on its spent yeast in steel: all flint, citrus and almond. A well-liked white that ages past five years. From about 27 pounds.

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Tasting Notes

How La Scolca Gavi dei Gavi tastes: flint, citrus and almond

La Scolca leads with lemon, grapefruit and green apple over a savoury struck-flint note. It is 100% Cortese from the high hills of Rovereto Superiore di Gavi, aged on its spent yeast in steel. Almond and walnut arrive as it ages.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
12 June 2026
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Cortese
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

La Scolca opens with lemon, grapefruit and lime over green apple and white peach. Acacia lifts them, and so does a struck-flint, wet-stone note, the wine's aromatic signature. Time on its spent yeast in steel adds a faint creamy almond edge that deepens with age.

GrapefruitGrapefruit
LemonLemon
LimeLime
Green AppleGreen Apple
White peachWhite peach
FlintFlint
AlmondAlmond
HazelnutsHazelnuts
HoneyHoney
Palate

Bone-dry and high-acid at about 12%, it runs citrus and orchard fruit over a salty, flinty, stony core. That core is drawn from the high hills of Rovereto Superiore di Gavi. The partial contact with the skins and ageing on the native spent yeast give it a broad, savoury mid-palate rather than a simple crisp white.

Finish

The close is long and savoury. Flint and citrus zest trail into the almond and walnut note La Scolca flags as the wine's signature.

Overall

This is La Scolca's benchmark Black Label, the wine that made Gavi dei Gavi a reference, and a well-liked one. It is a stony Cortese for the table, crisp young yet able to age past five years.

Drink now Best by 2030
Live UK pricing

Buying La Scolca Gavi dei Gavi in the UK

The Black Label 2019 sits around 48 pounds at Great Wines Direct and the 2024 Gold Edition near 32 pounds. The producer's own price is about 27 pounds. Every bottle here is 750ml of 100% Cortese from the Soldati family estate above Gavi.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £23.68 at 8wines
Price spread · 75cl · 2025 £23.68 - £45.00 Across 3 UK retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock
Retailers · 75cl · 2025 3UK 3 in stock
Vintages live 2025 · 2024 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £31.57 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
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Other vintages and formats: 3 price lines

Half bottle 37.5cl · 2024: £27.00, 1 UK retailer

Magnum 150cl · 2024: £72.91, 1 UK retailer

Magnum 150cl · 2025: £72.91 - £98.00, 2 UK retailers

Wine fit score

Where Gavi dei Gavi fits: a benchmark seafood white

Built for the table more than the cellar, this is a crisp, stony 12% Cortese that scores high for food and occasion. At about 27 to 48 pounds it sits above everyday Gavi. Its flint-and-citrus precision makes it one of Piedmont's reference whites for fish.

Best with food 8.4/10

High Cortese acidity, a salty flint core and 12% weight make it a benchmark partner for oysters, shellfish, seafood pasta and white meats. It is one of Piedmont's most food-flexible whites.

Best for an occasion 7.2/10

A recognised benchmark from the house that coined Gavi dei Gavi, prestigious and polished enough for a celebration dinner or a serious seafood table.

Best intro to this style 7.0/10

A crisp, dry white from an indigenous grape is easy to approach. The savoury flint-and-almond style and 30-plus-pound price make it more a step up than a first bottle, though.

Best for cellar 6.0/10

Unusually age-worthy for Gavi: the producer promises it holds well beyond five years, and drinkers still like the 2019. It remains a white for the medium term, not the long.

Best value 5.5/10

At about 27 pounds from the cellar and up to 48 pounds in the UK it sits well above everyday Gavi. Old-vine pedigree justifies that, but it is not a bargain within Gavi.

Best everyday bottle 4.0/10

Too stony, structured and expensive at 27 to 48 pounds for a midweek pour. This is a wine for seafood nights and guests rather than the everyday fridge.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Gavi/Cortese di Gavi in five fields

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.

Allowed grapes
1 varieties listed
This bottle: Cortese.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Alessandria
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
DOCG · Gavi/Cortese di Gavi
Classification
DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita)
What that means →
Vintages

La Scolca Gavi dei Gavi across 2019, 2024 and 2025

Three vintages sit together here. The 2019 Black Label is the standout, still well liked by drinkers years on. The 2024 Gold Edition and the youthful 2025 are fresher and built for early drinking. All are 100% Cortese at about 12%.

2025 Current release
Best price
£23.68
Retailers
5 in stock
2024 Previous release
Best price
£27.00 half bottle
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.0%
Window
Drink now through 2031

The 2024 is the Gold Edition bottling, a fresh, youthful Gavi dei Gavi built for early drinking. Citrus and green apple lead over the estate's saline flint core; enjoy it now and over the next few years while its bright Cortese acidity is at its best.

2024 Previous release
Best price
£27.00 half bottle
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.0%
Window
Drink now through 2031

The 2024 is the Gold Edition bottling, a fresh, youthful Gavi dei Gavi built for early drinking. Citrus and green apple lead over the estate's saline flint core; enjoy it now and over the next few years while its bright Cortese acidity is at its best.

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 disciplinare, the place, the label

Why La Scolca defined Gavi dei Gavi

The Soldati family bought Tenuta La Scolca in 1919 and planted Cortese where only red grapes grew. Now in its fourth generation under Chiara Soldati, the estate coined the Gavi dei Gavi name and styles itself the house of the best Gavi in the world. It works vineyards over sixty years old at Rovereto Superiore.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

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.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. 1 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Yield ceiling. 9.5 tonnes per hectare
  • Tasting panel. Mandatory pre-release tasting commission
03

Region and area context

Gavi/Cortese di Gavi falls within Piedmont, covering Alessandria.

Gavi/Cortese di Gavi DOCG zone The producer

Made at La Scolca, Gavi. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • La ScolcaProducer / estate
  • CorteseGrape varieties
  • Gavi/Cortese di Gavi DOCGGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • Imbottigliato all’origineEstate-bottled
05

What sits behind the price of La Scolca Gavi dei Gavi

Tracked from
£23.68
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
5 up / 1 down
Main factor
Old Cortese vines over sixty years old at Rovereto di Gavi
  1. 01

    Old Cortese vines over sixty years old at Rovereto di Gavi

    Cost up

    La Scolca selects cluster by cluster from vineyards more than sixty years old in the high hills of Rovereto Superiore di Gavi. Low-yielding old vines cost far more to farm than young flatland Cortese.

  2. 02

    Cluster-by-cluster selection and sur lie ageing in steel

    Cost up

    Each lot is hand-selected cluster by cluster and held on its own spent yeast in steel until bottling. That ties up tank space and labour well beyond a quick-press commercial Gavi.

  3. 03

    Benchmark La Scolca brand, the house of the best Gavi

    Cost up

    La Scolca coined the Gavi dei Gavi name, and the wine is well liked. That reputation lifts the Black Label to about 27 pounds at the cellar and up to 48 pounds in the UK, far above generic Gavi.

  4. 04

    Gavi DOCG status and a single Piedmont estate

    Cost up

    Gavi earned DOCG, Italy's top tier, in 1998. Sourcing only from the Soldati family's own Rovereto estate rather than buying fruit adds cost over negoce Gavi.

  5. 05

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    At 2026 rates UK still-wine duty is 2.67 pounds a bottle, plus 20% VAT. That is roughly 8 pounds of tax on the 32-pound Gold Edition before any merchant margin.

  6. 06

    Priced below Piedmont's grand reds

    Cost down

    Barolo or Barbaresco cost three to five times as much. Even La Scolca's flagship white starts near 27 pounds, which keeps Gavi dei Gavi an attainable Piedmont benchmark.

01

Old Cortese vines over sixty years old at Rovereto di Gavi

Cost up

La Scolca selects cluster by cluster from vineyards more than sixty years old in the high hills of Rovereto Superiore di Gavi. Low-yielding old vines cost far more to farm than young flatland Cortese.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Carbonade on stoneware bowl with Bay Leaf, Beef Broth, Beef Chuck

Carbonade
Food Pairing

Cortese acidity and flint: dishes that fit Gavi dei Gavi

High Cortese acidity, a salty flint core and 12% weight point straight at the sea. La Scolca pours it with oysters, shellfish and seafood, then white meats and light roasts. Impepata di cozze and Ligurian trofie al pesto are home matches from Gavi's own corner of Piedmont.

Acidity matching Strong match

Oysters, raw shellfish and the sea

Gavi dei Gavi's high Cortese acidity and salty flint core scour the brine of oysters and mussels. They refresh the palate the way a squeeze of lemon does. La Scolca itself names oysters, shellfish and seafood as the wine's home table.

Try with: Oysters · Impepata di cozze · Cozze arraganate · Baccala Mantecato · More pairings →

Salt balance Strong match

Seafood pasta and risotto

The wine's citrus drive and stony, flinty cut slice through the richness of a seafood fregola or squid ink risotto. Its 12% weight keeps pace without burying the dish. A textbook Cortese match for the primi of Italy's coast.

Try with: Fregula ai frutti di mare · Squid ink risotto · Trofie al pesto · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Fried antipasti and creamy risotto

High acidity is the classic foil for fried food. Gavi dei Gavi resets the palate against gnocco fritto and the butter of a seafood risotto, its flinty Cortese line cutting the fat clean.

Try with: Gnocco fritto · Impepata di cozze · Squid ink risotto · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Ligurian pesto and herb-led plates

Gavi sits on the Ligurian border, and the wine's green-apple and herb-flecked side bridges straight to basil pesto and fresh tomato. The struck-flint, stony note keeps trofie al pesto or a caprese from turning flat.

Try with: Trofie al pesto · Insalata Caprese · Vitello Tonnato · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

White meats, poultry and light roasts

La Scolca recommends the wine beyond fish, with white meats, noble poultry and light roasts. Its broad, savoury mid-palate, from ageing on its own spent yeast, carries roast chicken or Piedmont's vitello tonnato without overpowering them.

Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Roast chicken · Roast turkey · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Skip fiery heat and heavy red-meat dishes

At a delicate 12% with no tannin or oak to lean on, Gavi dei Gavi is overrun by chilli heat and flattened by rich, slow-braised red meat. Keep it away from vindaloo, fierce Sichuan dishes and gravy-heavy roasts.

Skip with: Vindaloo · Szechuan beef · Butter chicken · Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Cellaring Gavi dei Gavi: a rare age-worthy white Gavi

Most Gavi is drunk young, but La Scolca builds the Black Label to last. It holds well beyond five years, with flint, almond and hazelnut deepening over time. Drinkers still like the 2019 and the 2018, so good vintages reward five to eight years.

Decanting
Not needed

Pour it straight from the bottle.

Serving temperature
8-12°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential
Medium

Unusually age-worthy for Gavi: the producer promises it holds well beyond five years, and drinkers still like the 2019. It remains a white for the medium term, not the long.

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Buy now

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Sources & trust

Sources behind this Gavi dei Gavi page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 27 Oct 2026, 05:11 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from published drinker ratings, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our 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 · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

La Scolca, Cortese and Gavi DOCG connections

Producer
La Scolca Piedmont
Grapes
Cortese
Denomination
Gavi/Cortese di Gavi DOCG
Region
Piedmont Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine 1 dishes paired

Common Questions

It is the flagship Black Label white of the La Scolca estate. It is a Gavi DOCG made from 100% Cortese grown in the high hills of Rovereto Superiore di Gavi. The Soldati family coined the Gavi dei Gavi name and ages it on its spent yeast in steel for a flinty, citrus-driven style.

100% Cortese, the white grape of Gavi in south-east Piedmont. La Scolca draws it from vineyards over sixty years old and ferments it on its own spent yeast. That gives citrus and green apple over a savoury flint and almond character.

La Scolca pours it with oysters, shellfish, seafood and crab, then white meats, poultry and light roasts. Its high acidity and salty flint core also suit seafood pasta, squid ink risotto and Ligurian trofie al pesto from Gavi's own corner of Piedmont.

Yes, more than most Gavi. La Scolca says the Black Label holds its character well beyond five years, developing flint, almond and hazelnut. Drinkers still like the 2019, years on. Good vintages reward five to eight years in the cellar.

The bottles listed here run from about 32 pounds for the 2024 Gold Edition to 48 pounds for the 2019 Black Label. The producer's own price is about 27 pounds. All are 750ml of 100% Cortese.

No. La Scolca makes several Gavi: the entry White Label, Villa Scolca, and the flagship Gavi dei Gavi Black Label. The Black Label comes from the oldest vines and is the age-worthy, benchmark bottling, priced well above the White Label.

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