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Fontanassa

Gavi di Gavi – Rovereto DOCG 2024

Grape: Cortese
Region: Piedmont, Italy

What to say

Straw yellow with splendid greenish reflections, hints of freshly cut grass, grapefruit, white melon, pear and almond, with hints of sage.
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.
Ample and complex.

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