Alberto Ghibellini

La Ghibellina is located in Monterotondo, a part of the Municipality of Gavi (Piedmont) particularly suited for the production of Cortese di Gavi DOCG. Founded in 2000, la Ghibellina is born out of Marina Galli and Alberto Ghibellini’s passion for the wine and the hills of this southern part of Piedmont. The vineyard stretches over an area of around 20 hectares, in a beautiful context of rolling hills between the southern part of the Po River Valley and the Ligurian Appenines. The winery’s vineyards stretch over an area of around 9 hectares, merged together, with a south-south east exposure at an average height of 300 meters above sea level. Gavi’s hills belong to the Serravallian marls, which stretch from the Scrivia river to Langhe. These hills are mostly characterized by mixed soils. On top of the hills the soil is on average calcareous and of good texture, while at their foot it tends to be clayey sedimentary. The area is characterized by dry and windy summers with wide temperature range between day and night. Winters are on average cold with fairly abundant snow falls. Such a climate, along with the soil composition, allows to produce elegant and well-balanced wines with a good level of acidity, structure and minerality. Our winemaking aims to emphasize the expressive potential and the typical character of the winery’s vineyards. An aware and respectful winemaking, which must be as unintrusive as possible, helps us preserve  in full the characteristics of the grapes we cultivate at the winery.