Wine Gavi DOCG Villa Scolca 2010, 375 ml
Reviews of purchase Gavi DOCG Villa Scolca 2010, 375 ml
Tasting Notes
The wine has a golden color with greenish reflections.
Villa Scolca 20010, has a delicate dry flavor with a bright and refreshing acidity, which is less pronounced due to the denser structure of the wine.
The wine has a distinctive aroma of Gavi: pleasant and refreshingly fruity. The bouquet reveals fruity and mineral notes with hints of dried fruit.
Wine is designed to accompany any meal and goes well with a variety of appetizers: lobster, lobsters, mussels, clams, and fish, white meat or poultry.
Interesting Facts
Gavi Villa Scolca - this wonderful white wine - light, refreshing, well-structured, grapes for its production are grown in the vineyards located on the sunlit hills of Rovereto. Age of vines 25-30 years. Fermentation takes place in steel tanks at controlled temperature. Gavi Villa How many aged for 7 months. Ageing potential wine from 3-5 years.
The company was founded La Scolca Giovan Battista Parodi, great-grandfather of the present owner in 1919. Hacienda La Scolca occupies a space of 50 hectares and is located on a hill in the Ligurian Apennines. The first vineyard was planted Parodies son, Alfredo, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War and was originally planned for the production of conventional home-made wines. But Vittorio Soldati, the third generation of owners, could realize the great potential embodied in these lands. Although Piedmont - a traditional region of red wines, the soldiers decided to bet on the production of white wines, for which he was rewarded with outstanding results. The present capacity of the local Cortese grape variety was discovered only when it began to work in earnest, to determine the minimum yield per vine and the optimal degree of maturity. In 1950 he produced the first bottle of wine Gavi, which, in fact, was the first white wine produced in Piedmont. Since then, the wine lists of the best restaurants in the world, a new high-quality Italian white wine.
For a long time the wine list the dining car of the legendary Orient Express (Orient Express), containing about 20 names included famous wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, but only two of wine are Italy, one of which is from Gavi dei Gavi La Skolkov. Until 1978 La Scolca wines delivered to the Iranian Shah, in the palace of Shah Gavi wine was served in bowls for tea. It is known that Tom Cruise not only loves wine Gavi, but also believes that it brings him luck, this was the only white wine at its last wedding. In the British Embassy in Rome in 2007 and 2008 Birthday Queen Elizabeth II celebrated only wines of La Ssolca. In 2007, the sparkling wine La Scolca Millesimato was the official wine of the Nobel Prize.
