A6 portrait, two pages: print double-sided (flip on long edge), or print and fold.

IWI Staff card

Fontanassa

Gavi Ca Adua DOCG 2025

Grape
Cortese 100%
Region
Piedmont, Italy

What to say

  • Straw yellow colour with greenish reflections, aromas of citrus, grapefruit, cut grass white flowers, dry, fresh, with good sapidity, persistent and mineral taste.
  • La Fontanassa is a 16th-century fortified farmhouse at Rovereto, in the historic heart of Gavi, where vines were already recorded in a 1634 sharecropping contract.
  • The Gemme family bought it in 1921 and Marco and Roberto Gemme began bottling in 1988 with oenologist Gaspare Buscemi.
Italian Wine Importers · part of IF&BSKU FONADU-25
Gavi Ca Adua DOCG 2025

The producer

Fontanassa

La Fontanassa is a 16th-century fortified farmhouse at Rovereto, in the historic heart of Gavi, where vines were already recorded in a 1634 sharecropping contract. The Gemme family bought it in 1921 and Marco and Roberto Gemme began bottling in 1988 with oenologist Gaspare Buscemi. The estate covers 90 hectares, 43 of them vineyard on clay, stone and iron-sand soils.

Winemaker
Marco and Roberto Gemme (owners); oenologist Gaspare Buscemi collaborated on the first bottling in 1988