Freddy R. Troya

9.0

Villa Sparina Gavi Cortese 2024
Gavi DOCG – Piemonte, Italy 🇮🇹

Overview
Made from 100% Cortese, the 2024 vintage feels even more uplifting and rounded compared to the already solid 2023 release. Villa Sparina continues to showcase why Gavi remains one of Northern Italy’s most dependable white wine styles, balancing freshness, elegance, and effortless drinkability. This vintage particularly shines with its harmony and polished personality.

Aromas & Flavors
Bright citrus, crisp green apple, white peach, and subtle pear notes lead the way, followed by delicate floral tones and a touch of almond on the finish. The fruit profile feels more expressive and integrated in 2024, giving the wine extra charm without losing its mineral-driven identity.

Mouthfeel
Light to medium-bodied with refreshing acidity and a beautifully rounded texture. Clean, vibrant, and very balanced from start to finish, offering both tension and softness in a way that makes the wine incredibly easy to revisit glass after glass.

Food Pairings
Excellent with seafood pasta, grilled shrimp, lemon herb chicken, oysters, risotto, or fresh cheeses. Also fantastic as a pure aperitif wine.

Verdict
The 2024 vintage feels more complete and harmonious than the previous release, showing extra polish while keeping the classic crisp personality of Gavi intact. Refreshing, elegant, and dangerously easy to enjoy.

Did You Know?
Gavi DOCG is produced exclusively from Cortese grapes in southeastern Piemonte, near the Ligurian border, which partially explains its coastal-like freshness and saline edge despite being an inland appellation.

🍷 Personal Pick
This has officially become my “wine king opener” and one of my new Northern Italy staples. The 2024 vintage simply feels more alive, rounded, and balanced, a bottle that surprises everyone and every time I have pour for friends that have never taste it. Cheers! — a month ago

H W

8.9

Apple, green vegetal notes, spicy, bone dry, medium body, medium plus acidity — 4 months ago

Michael Chelus

9.1

Pear, baked apple, lemon, honey and mango. Great acidity and balance. — 4 months ago

Elizabeth Duda

8.9

Light and crisp. Excellent color. Citrus notes and apricot and pear. — 6 months ago

with Joe and Peter

Pooneet K

9.2

Very nice. Has that great tension you always hope to see in Riesling. Quite a ripe nose. Great body and acid. Just that hint of sweetness, more a suggestion than a presence. — 8 months ago

Rick Stiles

9.5

I'll leave the detailed reviews to the professionals. I've had this in the seller for a few years. Finally opened, decanted, let it sit for about an hour. Fantastic tannins on the finish. Exactly what I like. Does not disappoint.  — 9 months ago

Rufus King

9.4

Juicy Tuscan red blend with medium tannin and acidity enjoyed with steak salad at Willow and Ivy, Lennox Hotel, Boston — a month ago

Bonnie Chu

8.9

Chianti Classico tasting 🇮🇹 @ Ai Fiori — 2 months ago

Manj Gunawardane

9.0

Lime lead and zest, lightly floral, major minerality and citrus, balanced sweetness, med depth. Giving off a little kerosene. Quite pleasant. — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

N: hint rubber blackberry.

P: sweet fruit. Balanced. Crunchy. Spice. Blackberry.

480 — 4 months ago

Andrew McIntyre

9.7

Hit the sweet spot...pefect blend of acidity, tropical fruit and minerality. Wow...best ever Keller Kirchspiel 😍😍😍 — 6 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Palomino y esparza — 7 months ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

Seemingly more youthful than the notes on my last bottle, about 20 months ago, would suggest. A fair amount of bricking at the rim, but the nose shows a nice integration of dark macerated cherry, Provençal herbs, iodiney minerals, and sun-baked earth. In the mouth, the tannins are there but resolving. Decent concentration, and sneaky acidity lifts it up a bit. Nice! — 8 months ago

Scott Kahn

9.2

A perfect complement to osso bucco and fish soup! Rich red fruit with good structure - M tannins and M+ acidity. Very enjoyable. — a month ago

Caspar Matheis

9.3

This one slaps - 🏎️💨 — 3 months ago

Mathew

9.3

Flinty apple juice — 4 months ago

Jamie Amann

9.2

Had a ruby red color and the color was consistent throughout the glass. Smelled of cherry or red fruit. Tasted of red fruit and was a little bitter. Felt like it coated the mouth. — 4 months ago

Andrew Keenan

9.0

Moores. 2016 — 6 months ago

Jack Krawczyk

9.2

unripe plum with a touch of kefir — 6 months ago

Jan A

9.5

Maiden vintage, paired with lobster and truffle — 8 months ago