Stefano Massone Gavi Masera 2024 750ml

Made from 100% Cortese grapes, this delicious white is both soft and crisp. With a pleasant stony minerality, this straw-yellow wine features notes of apple and pear and a lovely, lingering, refreshing finish. Cortese – 100% Vineyard age (year of planting): 1978 Soil type: Calcarous-clayey Exposure: South Vinification and ageing: In stainless steel

• Country: Italy
• Region: Piedmont
• Appellation: Gavi
• Size: 750ml
• Color: White
• Alcohol by Vol: 13.0%

Varietal

Cortese

The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.