Castellore Gavi DOCG 2024 from Piedmont, Italy, offers exceptional value at $9.99, featuring subtle yet complex flavors of apple, lemon curd, pear, nectarine, and dry pineapple with perfect acidity.
• A DOCG wine representing Italy’s highest quality classification with strict production standards
• Gavi was one of Italy’s first popular white wine exports, predating Pinot Grigio
• From Piedmont, the same prestigious region that produces Barolo (the “king of Italian red wines”)
• Similar enough to Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Chenin Blanc to be approachable
• Best served with a good chill to enhance its refreshing qualities
• Available at Aldi as part of their Specially Selected range
• Perfect choice for breaking out of familiar white wine habits
Keep it cheap! Next up will be an organic Cabernet Sauvignon from the Central Coast.
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Introducing Castellari Gavi DOCG 2024
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0:02
Hey , hello , it's Domain Dave , cheapwinefindercom . And today we've got another wine . We do value price wine reviews . You write them up on the CheapWineFindercom website , which we've been doing for like forever Podcasts for the last few years , maybe more than a few , but we talk about wines that everybody drinks , everybody can afford , and today we've got a 999 Castellari Gavi DOCG 2024 from Piedmont in Italy . It's an Aldi wine . It's one of their specially selected wines . I should have put that in the title , I didn't , but this is what the wine is . We did this wine , reviewed this wine on the 2022 vintage . This is a 2024 vintage and it has a different label . Um , just one side note aldi typically owns the name , the brand , and that way , if they ever have to change the producer or whatever , they can just switch it out . You never know . And so this is a DOCG
Understanding DOCG Wine Classifications
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1:13
wine . I'm gonna take a sip .
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1:22
Docg is the highest level ofian wine and the g stands for guaranteed , and the guarantee isn't that you're gonna like it . The guarantee is the quality . They got very strict um rules and regulations in the vineyards , what the yield can be , how you have to do this and that , how you , how you make the wine in the winery . I mean , they said to do it . You know , growing the grapes this way and making the wine this way is the way to do it , and these older wine regions probably . Right , you know . So , um , so there you go . So it's docg . So this is high quality . You might not like it , but it's good quality . And gabi is one of the first popular italian , uh , white export wines . You know , like way
Flavor Profile and Tasting Notes
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2:15
before pinot , grigio . And in italy they have 300 or more white wines , different varietals , and they're all different . You know you , sometimes you think , oh yeah , one village over has a different grape , but they just call it something different . No , they did DNA testing . This is all different . So this is from the Piedmont , this is the wide white of the Piedmont . The red wine is Barolo , which is like the king of Italian red wine . So this is from a really good area . They can make red wine , so this is from a really good area . They can make this wine this is just a light ready to drink wine but they can make it an oak aging that you can put away for 20 years . They can make it into a spumante , a sparkling wine . So it's a good grape from a good region . You know .
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2:59
For me , I never really was aware of it until 2022 , when Aldi had it and I liked it and it tastes similar to a lot of popular wines . It tastes similar to what a Chardonnay or a Sauvignon Blanc would taste like , or a Chenin Blanc , but it's not . It's different . But if you like those , you will understand this . It's got really good acidity .
Speaker 1
3:32
City's in the pocket . It's a really fun sipping wine . Put a good chill on it . You know you're going to need a nice bucket unless it gets cold outside , but when it does you're going to really enjoy the wine . It has flavors that you are familiar with , but it's maybe in a little bit of different order . It's got um , what do we got here ? We got like a stew of apple and maybe lemon curd and anju pear , that that , that pear , that's kind of harder , not as juicy as a regular pear . It's got nectarine and maybe some dry pineapple . It's got a lot of different flavors , good flavors , but it's subtle , it's not , you know , it's not over the top , it just tastes great . Like I said , with a chill it's going to taste even better . So we've done this one before . We did the 2022 of the uh , all the uh .
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4:24
Specially selected castellari gavi , docg 2024 . There's a lot to like about it . It's well made , it tastes great . If you're stuck in a rut of the usual white wines , and the usual red wines too , this will nudge you out of that
Final Thoughts and Next Wine Preview
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4:41
a little bit . Gavi is a . It's been good for a long , long time . I think this grape goes back hundreds of years .
Speaker 1
4:48
I'm taking another sip . So there you go . This is Domain Dave cheapwinefindercom , since this is just a-checking to see if the quality is still good . And it was a couple years ago . So I don't . I'm not gonna remember exactly what it tastes like and I don't know if they had changed the uh , change the producer , because this castellori seems to be it's in puglia , it's in piedmont , it's , it's up . You know , it's everywhere they . You know that's not really how italian wine goes , where one winery does everything but um , it was good last , it was good in 2022 and it's good in 2024 . It's a good white wine for 10 bucks . So if you see it in aldi , check it out . Like I said , put a chill on it . It's better to chill , but it tastes pretty good just on its own . So , adios , keep it cheap . I've , I've , got a . What do I got next , I got a organic Cabernet Sauvignon from the Central Coast , so I'll be having some fun with that one . So I'll be talking to Barry in a couple of days . Adios , bye-bye , keep it cheap .
