Unlocking the Secret of Aldi's $9.99 Italian Gem: Castellore Gavi DOCG 2024

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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Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing Castellari Gavi DOCG 2024
• 1:13 Understanding DOCG Wine Classifications
• 2:15 Flavor Profile and Tasting Notes
• 4:41 Final Thoughts and Next Wine Preview

Transcript

Speaker 1: 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 wine. I'm gonna take a sip.

Speaker 1: 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 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.

Speaker 1: 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.

Speaker 1: 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 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.