The Winery Lorenzo Carrea of Gavi of Piémont

Winery Lorenzo Carrea - Del Comune Di Gavi
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 124 of the estates of Piémont.
It is located in Gavi in the region of Piémont

The Winery Lorenzo Carrea is one of the best wineries to follow in Gavi.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Gavi to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Lorenzo Carrea wines

Looking for the best Winery Lorenzo Carrea wines in Gavi among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Lorenzo Carrea wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Lorenzo Carrea wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Lorenzo Carrea

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Lorenzo Carrea

How Winery Lorenzo Carrea wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of pasta shells, quick crayfish chicken or lebanese hummus.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Lorenzo Carrea.

  • Dolcetto

Discovering the wine region of Gavi

The wine region of Gavi is located in the region of Piémont of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine La Scolca or the Domaine La Scolca produce mainly wines white, sparkling and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Gavi are Cortese, Ribolla gialla and Gaglioppo, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Gavi often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, leather or meyer lemon and sometimes also flavors of slate, black fruit or orange zest.

In the mouth of Gavi is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 295 estates and châteaux in the of Gavi, producing 523 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Gavi go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or appetizers and snacks.

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Discover the grape variety: Chenin

Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.

News about Winery Lorenzo Carrea and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

Drought emergency declared in northern Italy

Severe drought in northern Italy has led to the country’s government declaring a state of emergency in several regions, including Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto. Funds of €36.5m (£31m) would be made available to these regions for drought relief, the government said. Agriculture body Coldiretti said last week that the Po river, which flows across northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea, was almost unrecognisable. Drought in the Po Valley threatened around 30% of n ...

The word of the wine: Frank

Said of a wine that is open and delivers itself immediately, and whose clarity excludes any defect.