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

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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

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, hello, it's Domain Dave, cheapwinefindercom.
And today we've got anotherwine.
We do value price wine reviews.
You write them up on theCheapWineFindercom website,
which we've been doing for likeforever Podcasts for the last
few years, maybe more than a few, but we talk about wines that

(00:23):
everybody drinks, everybody canafford, and today we've got a
999 Castellari Gavi DOCG 2024from Piedmont in Italy.
It's an Aldi wine.
It's one of their speciallyselected wines.
I should have put that in thetitle, I didn't, but this is

(00:44):
what the wine is.
We did this wine, reviewed thiswine on the 2022 vintage.
This is a 2024 vintage and ithas a different label.
Um, just one side note alditypically owns the name, the
brand, and that way, if theyever have to change the producer

(01:05):
or whatever, they can justswitch it out.
You never know.
And so this is a DOCG wine.
I'm gonna take a sip.
Docg is the highest level ofianwine and the g stands for

(01:27):
guaranteed, and the guaranteeisn't that you're gonna like it.
The guarantee is the quality.
They got very strict um rulesand regulations in the vineyards
, what the yield can be, how youhave to do this and that, how
you, how you make the wine inthe winery.
I mean, they said to do it.

(01:47):
You know, growing the grapesthis 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'sgood quality.
And gabi is one of the firstpopular italian, uh, white

(02:13):
export wines.
You know, like way before pinot, grigio.
And in italy they have 300 ormore white wines, different
varietals, and they're alldifferent.
You know you, sometimes youthink, oh yeah, one village over
has a different grape, but theyjust 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

(02:36):
Piedmont.
The red wine is Barolo, whichis like the king of Italian red
wine.
So this is from a really goodarea.
They can make red wine, so thisis from a really good area.
They can make this wine this isjust a light ready to drink
wine but they can make it an oakaging that you can put away for
20 years.
They can make it into aspumante, a sparkling wine.
So it's a good grape from agood region.

(02:58):
You know.
For me, I never really was awareof it until 2022, when Aldi had
it and I liked it and it tastessimilar to a lot of popular
wines.
It tastes similar to what aChardonnay or a Sauvignon Blanc
would taste like, or a CheninBlanc, but it's not.

(03:19):
It's different.
But if you like those, you willunderstand this.
It's got really good acidity.
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 anice bucket unless it gets cold

(03:39):
outside, but when it doesyou're going to really enjoy the
wine.
It has flavors that you arefamiliar with, but it's maybe in
a little bit of different order.
It's got um, what do we gothere?
We got like a stew of apple andmaybe lemon curd and anju pear,

(04:00):
that that, that pear, that'skind of harder, not as juicy as
a regular pear.
It's got nectarine and maybesome dry pineapple.
It's got a lot of differentflavors, good flavors, but it's
subtle, it's not, you know, it'snot over the top, it just
tastes great.
Like I said, with a chill it'sgoing to taste even better.
So we've done this one before.

(04:20):
We did the 2022 of the uh, allthe uh.
Specially selected castellarigavi, 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 theusual white wines, and the
usual red wines too, this willnudge you out of that a little

(04:41):
bit.
Gavi is a.
It's been good for a long, longtime.
I think this grape goes backhundreds of years.
I'm taking another sip.
So there you go.
This is Domain Davecheapwinefindercom, since this

(05:02):
is just a-checking to see if thequality is still good.
And it was a couple years ago.
So I don't.
I'm not gonna remember exactlywhat it tastes like and I don't
know if they had changed the uh,change the producer, because
this castellori seems to be it'sin puglia, it's in piedmont,
it's, it's up.
You know, it's everywhere they.

(05:22):
You know that's not really howitalian 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 10bucks.
So if you see it in aldi, checkit out.
Like I said, put a chill on it.
It's better to chill, but ittastes pretty good just on its
own.
So, adios, keep it cheap.

(05:42):
I've, I've, got a.
What do I got next, I got aorganic Cabernet Sauvignon from
the Central Coast, so I'll behaving some fun with that one.
So I'll be talking to Barry ina couple of days.
Adios, bye-bye, keep it cheap.