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A dry, peach-and-apricot Gavi di Gavi from the Roberto Sarotto estate, finishing on lemon and wet stone. Drinkers like it, year after year. In the UK it is sold only by Majestic, at £18.50 a bottle.
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Peach, apricot and green apple, then a stony, lemony finish. That is this Cortese from a plot the size of three football pitches. A long, cool fermentation and three months on its yeast give it its texture.
Peach and apricot come first, then pineapple and floral scents. Green apple and a little acacia blossom sit behind them. The wine went through a long, cool fermentation to draw out the grape's scents, and it shows: the nose is fresh rather than loud.
Lemon
Acacia
Apricot
Green Apple
Peach
Pineapple
Wet stones
AlmondDry, medium-bodied and crisp, at 13 per cent. The fruit turns to green apple, lemon and lime on the tongue, with a touch of greengage. Three months resting on its spent yeast, the lees, give the wine its texture: a gentle creaminess in the middle before the acidity takes over.
Clean, closing on lemon and wet stone, with a trace of honey and mineral in that stony edge. Citrus and a hint of bitter almond, classic Gavi, sit in there too.
A fresh, fruit-first Gavi di Gavi for drinking young, and drinkers like it, year after year. The 2021 is the year they have liked most so far. The acidity is moderate and the flavours light and crisp, which is the style rather than a fault. In the UK it is sold only by Majestic. Drink by 2028.
Majestic is the one UK shop we track with this wine, so there is no price to compare. It charges £18.50 for a single bottle, and less per bottle on its Mix Six price when you buy six. That £18.50 sits right at the middle of the Gavi prices we follow across UK shops.
Its strongest cards are Best with food and Best intro to this style. It is a dry, medium-bodied Cortese with the acidity to handle fish and pesto, and a clear taste of what Gavi di Gavi is. It is not one to cellar: drink it by 2028.
Dry, medium-bodied and crisp, with peach and lemon leading. The Gavi consortium's own pairing brief is Genoa's fish, lean meats and vegetables, and shellfish, pasta and cured meat sit alongside. Few dishes fight it except hot chilli.
A classic Gavi di Gavi: 100 per cent Cortese by law, dry, gently aromatic, 13 per cent alcohol and under £20. Drinkers find it easy to like, year after year.
Light enough for a Tuesday fish supper. At the £18.50 single-bottle price it is more of a Friday wine, though Majestic's Mix Six offer brings the price down if you buy six bottles.
At £18.50 from Majestic it sits right at the middle of the Gavi prices we track across UK shops. The middle price there is about £18.50, so it is fairly priced rather than cheap. Majestic's Mix Six price lowers the cost per bottle if you buy six.
A DOCG white carrying the Gavi di Gavi wording, which reads well on a table. At £18.50 from one high-street chain it is a good-dinner bottle rather than a celebration one.
A drink-young white. The Gavi rules set no ageing minimum, and it gets three months on its yeast. The peach and apricot are the point. Drink between 2025 and 2028.
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 bottle Majestic sells is labelled 2024/25 on the shelf, and 2025 at 13 per cent on the spec sheet. Piedmont's annual harvest report for 2025 records a rainy spring, then a hot and early summer. Yields fell but the grapes were healthy, and the report rates Cortese eight and a half stars.
Piedmont's annual harvest report for 2025 describes a rainy spring, then a hot and early summer. Yields fell but the grapes were healthy. The report rates Cortese eight and a half stars, half a star below Arneis and Nebbiolo. In Gavi the picking began on 15 September, after late-August rain had refreshed the vines. Drink between 2025 and 2028.
Piedmont's annual harvest report for 2025 describes a rainy spring, then a hot and early summer. Yields fell but the grapes were healthy. The report rates Cortese eight and a half stars, half a star below Arneis and Nebbiolo. In Gavi the picking began on 15 September, after late-August rain had refreshed the vines. Drink between 2025 and 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.
Gavi is 100 per cent Cortese by law, grown on hillsides in eleven communes in the province of Alessandria. The valley floor is ruled out. The Gavi di Gavi wording means the grapes come from the commune of Gavi itself. Sarotto makes its Gavi at a second cellar in San Cristoforo, one of those eleven.
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.
Winery
Neviglie
Made at Roberto Sarotto, Neviglie. Directions
Campo dell'Olio comes from a 2-hectare vineyard. The Gavi rules cap the crop at 9.5 tonnes of grapes a hectare, turned into wine at no more than 70 per cent. So that plot cannot give more than about 17,700 bottles of Gavi a year.
The wine ferments long and cool, then rests three months on its spent yeast, the lees, before bottling. That is three months of cellar space before the wine can be sold, and it is what gives this Gavi its texture.
Sarotto says its harvest is still carried out almost entirely by hand, across about 90 hectares of vines, roughly 126 football pitches. Hand picking costs more than machine harvesting.
Sarotto makes about a million bottles a year, 80 per cent of them for export. It runs 333 steel tanks across its Neviglie and San Cristoforo cellars. That scale, and the estate's stated aim of staying affordable, keeps a DOCG white at Majestic under £20.
Of the £18.50 Majestic charges for a single bottle, about £6.07 is tax: £2.99 of duty at 13 per cent alcohol and £3.08 of VAT. On Majestic's lower Mix Six price the VAT share falls, while the duty stays at £2.99.
Dishes that go with this wine
Gavi's hills were Genoese land for centuries, and the Genoese table of fish, lean meats and vegetables is where Cortese belongs, in the Gavi consortium's own brief. Fish tacos work too, and so do shellfish, pasta, lean fish and cured meat.
The wine's fresh acidity and lemon edge do for shellfish what a squeeze of lemon does. They cut the brine and leave the sweetness of the flesh. That is the Gavi consortium's own brief for Cortese, a dry white from hills that were Genoese land for centuries. Try it with pepper-steamed mussels or a Sardinian seafood fregula.
Try with: Impepata di cozze · Fregula ai frutti di mare · Cozze arraganate · Mussels · More pairings →
Cortese's white-flower and green-apple scent sits in the same register as basil and pine nuts. The pesto tastes greener rather than flattened. A dry, medium-bodied Gavi di Gavi like this one carries the garlic without a fight.
Try with: Trofie al pesto · Focaccia di Recco · Coniglio alla ligure · Insalata Caprese · More pairings →
Crisp acidity scrubs the batter's oil off the tongue between bites, so fish tacos are a natural match. At 13 per cent it has enough body to stand up to the crunch without weighing the dish down. A plate of fish and chips works as well as the tacos.
Try with: Fish Tacos · Fish and Chips · Prawn Tempura · Fish pakora
A medium-bodied white with peach and almond notes matches the weight of thin veal and its tuna sauce instead of overpowering it. Cured meat is among this wine's best matches. The light creaminess from three months on its yeast is what makes that work.
Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Cotoletta alla Milanese · Risi e bisi · Roast chicken · More pairings →
Salt makes a crisp white taste rounder and fruitier, so raw and cured seafood brings out this wine's peach. The wet-stone edge meets the sea in the shell. Keep the wine cold and the portions small.
Try with: Oysters · Sashimi · Ceviche · Scottish Smoked Salmon
Chilli heat magnifies alcohol and strips a delicate white of its fruit. A madras or a Szechuan chicken leaves this Gavi tasting thin and hot. Slow beef braises need a red with tannin; a crisp Cortese gets lost under them.
Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan chicken · Green curry · Brasato al Barolo · Pairing guide →
A drink-young Gavi, with three months resting on its yeast before bottling. Drink it between 2025 and 2028, while the peach and apricot are fresh. The 2021 is the year drinkers have liked most so far, but the style is built for drinking young.
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Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
A drink-young white. The Gavi rules set no ageing minimum, and it gets three months on its yeast. The peach and apricot are the point. Drink between 2025 and 2028.
£18.50 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 what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4.2 out of 5 from 400 ratings on Vivino.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, from how this wine is made, the rules of its appellation, UK duty and VAT and the price shops charge for it today. 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 · MediumDry, medium-bodied and fresh, with peach, apricot and green apple up front and a lemony, wet-stone finish. Tree fruit, peach and apricot above all, is what stands out glass after glass. It is 13 per cent alcohol and made only from Cortese grapes.
Yes. Gavi di Gavi is the trade name for what the rules call Gavi del Comune di Gavi. It means the grapes come from the commune of Gavi itself, the town and the hamlets around it, not from one of the other ten communes allowed to make Gavi. The grape, Cortese, and the DOCG rules are the same for both.
Roberto Sarotto, a family estate at Neviglie in the Langhe hills, founded when Giuseppe Sarotto arrived there from Barbaresco in 1820. Roberto graduated from wine school in Alba in 1984. He and his wife Aurora later took the estate into Gavi, where it opened a second cellar at San Cristoforo in 2011. That cellar, inside the Gavi zone, is where the estate makes its Gavi wines.
Majestic is the only UK shop we track that sells it, so there is no price to compare between shops. It charges £18.50 for a single bottle, and less per bottle on its Mix Six price when you buy six. The shelf label reads 2024/25; the spec sheet gives 2025.
Fish, shellfish and pesto first. The Genoese table of fish, lean meats and vegetables is the Gavi consortium's own brief for Cortese. Fish tacos work too, and so do shellfish, pasta, appetisers, lean fish and cured meat. In Italian terms: mussels with pepper, trofie al pesto and vitello tonnato.
Drink it now, and by 2028. It is a fresh style of Gavi built on peach and apricot, with three months resting on its yeast before bottling. The 2021 is the year drinkers have liked most so far. Even so, it is not a wine to lay down for a decade; two or three years is the window.
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