La Raia Gavi Pise

The most unique and extraordinary of La Raia’s lineup of Gavi, “Pise” is produced in miniscule quantities from the estate’s oldest vines: a parcel of 70-year-old Cortese planed in reddish soils at a higher-than-typical altitude of 300 meters above sea level. Fermented and aged one year in used 25-hectoliter Stockinger casks, followed by an additional year in steel to settle naturally, Pise displays tight-grained, tunneling minerality, with a lovely serenity of texture and gentle, subtle fruit. The estate conceived of Pise as a wine to illustrate the remarkable and largely unknown aging potential of seriously made Gavi, and this wine is indeed capable of improving in bottle for many years.