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La Scolca's White Label is the Soldati family's fresh, young-vine Gavi from Rovereto, inside the town of Gavi itself. 100% Cortese, steel only, 12% alcohol: lemon, green apple and a dry almond edge. Drink within three years; UK price from about £14.
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The Soldati family's own sheet keeps it short: pale straw with green tints, fresh, delicate, very dry, with a sharp lemony vein and a hint of almond. Drinkers on Vivino, 5,179 ratings so far, add green apple, pear and a stony note.
Pale straw with a green tint, exactly as the Soldati family's own sheet describes it. Lemon and green apple lead, with pear behind them: those are the three notes Vivino drinkers log most often across more than 5,000 ratings. There is a faint white-blossom lift and a stony, wet-pebble edge. La Scolca's young vines for this wine sit on clay-rich hills at Rovereto that catch the sea breeze from Liguria, 30 km away.
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AlmondVery dry and light in body, at 12% alcohol. The acidity is sharp and lemony. La Scolca calls it an acidulous vein, and it is the wine's backbone. Four to five months resting on its lees in steel give it a little creaminess, but there is no oak and no sweetness. The signature is a bitter-almond note in the middle, the Cortese grape's calling card in Gavi.
Clean and moderately long, ending on lemon pith and that almond bitterness. Drinkers praise it as refreshing rather than intense, and that is the White Label's job.
This is La Scolca's entry Gavi, released every February from young vines, to drink within two or three years of the harvest. The Black Label Gavi dei Gavi is the one for keeping. Vivino's 5,179 ratings average 3.8 out of 5: a reliable, crisp, classic Gavi rather than a showstopper, and at £14 to £22 a fair deal.
The 2025 is the current release and the one to buy: the Gavi growers' consortium called it a year of balance and finesse. The 2024 came from a wet, testing spring saved by a warm summer and is still sound, so drink it first. The half bottle listed here is the 2024.
A 12% Gavi released in February to drink within two or three years: high marks for food and for a first Gavi, low marks for the cellar. The Black Label Gavi dei Gavi is the estate's bottle for keeping.
Very dry, sharp and light with no oak: a natural partner for oysters, fish, pesto and light Asian dishes, as the estate's own pairing list shows.
Dry, light, clean and 12% alcohol with lemon and green apple flavours: an easy first Gavi, and the label most people mean when they say La Scolca.
A 12% white for a weeknight fish supper, though the £21.96 price at one UK shop pushes it above casual territory; the £14 listing is the everyday buy.
At £14 to £22 in the UK it sits mid-range for Gavi, and you pay a few pounds for the La Scolca name. The estate sells it for €12.95 and its Black Label for twice that.
A DOCG Gavi from the house that made Gavi famous, good for an oyster starter or an aperitif. It is the entry label though; the Black Label is the one for a big night.
Released each February to drink fresh; the estate's fresh young-vine style is at its best within two or three years and holds for about five.
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.
La Scolca releases this wine each February after the harvest, made to drink young. Picking in 2025 started in mid-September after even flowering and a summer of warmth and useful rain. In 2024 it started a week later, between showers, after a wet spring.
A cool, steady year in Gavi. Gavi's growers' consortium reports even flowering, a summer that mixed warmth with useful rain, and picking from mid-September that gave balanced grapes with good tension. La Scolca says milder temperatures than usual asked for careful vineyard work. Drink it fresh, 2026 to 2028.
A testing year. A wet spring meant heavy vineyard work, a warm sunny summer brought the grapes through healthy, and picking started in the third week of September between showers. Lighter and earlier-drinking than the 2025: open it first, by 2027.
This is the 2024 in a 37.5cl half bottle, the estate's own twelve-bottle case size. Same wine as the 2024: a wet, testing spring saved by a warm summer. Drink it by 2027.
A cool, steady year in Gavi. Gavi's growers' consortium reports even flowering, a summer that mixed warmth with useful rain, and picking from mid-September that gave balanced grapes with good tension. La Scolca says milder temperatures than usual asked for careful vineyard work. Drink it fresh, 2026 to 2028.
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.
James Suckling gave the 2024 White Label 90 points and Wine Enthusiast 88, both listed on La Scolca's own shop. On Vivino, 5,179 ratings average 3.8 out of 5, and citrus, green apple and a stony note are the words used most.
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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You pay for the label. At the estate shop the White Label is €12.95 while the Black Label, Gavi dei Gavi, is €26.70. The UK price of £14 to £22 carries that same brand premium.
The grapes come only from the estate's hills at Rovereto, which is what lets the label say 'del Comune di Gavi'. Picking by hand and a legal cap on how many grapes each vineyard may carry limit how much can be made.
The wine ferments in temperature-controlled steel and rests four to five months in tank, then ships in February. No barrels and no years in the cellar keep the cost well below the Black Label.
Duty on a 75cl bottle at 12% alcohol is about £2.76, and VAT adds 20% of the shelf price. On the £21.96 bottle at Great Wines Direct that is about £6.42 in tax before a penny reaches the wine.
Eurowines sells the 2024 in 37.5cl at £15.42, which works out at £30.84 per full bottle against £21.96 for the 75cl. A small bottle costs the estate nearly as much to fill, cork and ship as a big one.
The Gavi growers' consortium reports 13 million bottles a year, about 90% exported and the UK the largest buyer, so competition between Gavi labels keeps prices in check. That is why even La Scolca's entry wine stays under about £22.
Dishes that go with this wine
La Scolca's own Italian sheet says the White Label has no rival on oysters. It also names fish and seafood, pasta with pesto or clams, white meats, vegetable tarts and Asian dishes. Keep chilli heat and red meat away from it.
The acidity is sharp and lemony, so it does the job of the lemon wedge on an oyster. The wine is very dry and light, so it never covers the salt and sweetness of raw shellfish. La Scolca's own Italian sheet says it has no rival on oysters.
Try with: Oysters · Sashimi · Nigiri Sushi · More pairings →
Basil, pine nut and olive oil are the flavours of Liguria, and La Scolca's hills sit 30 km from that coast. The wine's green apple and almond notes meet the pesto head-on, and its acidity keeps the oil from feeling heavy. The estate names pasta with pesto on its own sheet.
Try with: Trofie al pesto · Focaccia di Recco · Focaccia Genovese · More pairings →
Batter and frying oil coat the mouth, and this wine's acidity scrubs it clean between bites. At 12% and with no oak, it stays light enough not to fight a delicate piece of fish. Think of it as the vinegar on your chips.
Try with: Fish and Chips · Prawn Tempura · Tempura · Salt and pepper prawns
Soy, ginger and spring onion are salty and sharp. The wine's lemon fruit and the little creaminess from its months resting in tank smooth that saltiness out. Served cold at 12°C it is as light as the dish, and La Scolca's sheet calls it ideal with Asian food.
Try with: Steamed sea bass · Salt and pepper prawns · Lemon chicken · More pairings →
Veal, chicken and vegetable tarts are light dishes that a big wine would flatten. This Gavi matches their weight, and its almond bitterness cuts a creamy tuna sauce or a pastry crust. The estate lists white meats and vegetable tarts among its pairings.
Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Roast chicken · Lemon chicken
Chilli heat makes a very dry, sharp wine taste harsher, and the delicate almond note vanishes under a madras or a Szechuan sauce. Red meat wants tannin, and this wine has none. Save it for fish, shellfish and light dishes.
Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan chicken · Kung pao chicken · Pairing guide →
Peak around 2026. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Released each February to drink fresh; the estate's fresh young-vine style is at its best within two or three years and holds for about five.
£14.24 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 · MediumThe White Label is La Scolca's fresh, young-vine Gavi, made to drink within two or three years. The Black Label, sold as Gavi dei Gavi, is the estate's flagship from its older vines and costs about twice as much: €26.70 against €12.95 at the estate shop. This page is the White Label only.
It means every grape grew inside the boundaries of the town of Gavi itself, not just somewhere in the wider zone. Gavi DOCG covers 11 villages, and the production rules allow the words 'del comune di' plus a village name only when all the grapes come from that village. La Scolca's sheet gives the production area as the hills of the municipality of Gavi, at Rovereto.
It is pale straw with green tints, very dry and light, with a sharp lemony vein and a hint of almond, in the estate's own words. Drinkers on Vivino add green apple, pear and a stony note, and the wine averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5,179 ratings. It is 12% alcohol, made in steel with no oak, and best served at about 12°C.
Yes. The 2025 is the current release and is on sale in the UK at the shops listed on this page. The Gavi growers' consortium called 2025 a balanced year with excellent grapes, while 2024 had a wet, harder spring saved by a warm summer, so buy the 2025 and drink the 2024 first. The half bottle listed here is the 2024.
Drink it within two to three years of the harvest. La Scolca releases it each February to be drunk fresh, and it holds for up to five years in a cool, dark place without gaining much. The Black Label Gavi dei Gavi is the La Scolca wine for keeping.
Oysters first: La Scolca's Italian sheet says the wine has no rival with them. The estate also names fish and seafood, pasta with pesto or clams, white meats, vegetable tarts and Asian dishes, or a glass on its own before dinner. Keep it away from hot chilli and red meat.
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