2004 Pieropan LE COLOMBARE Recioto di Soave Classico Veneto - 50cl Bottles
Name:
Pieropan LE COLOMBARE Recioto di Soave Classico Veneto - 50cl Bottles - 2004
Where it's from:
>Italy
>Veneto
>Soave
Price per case:
£107.18
Bottle size:
50 cl
Bottles per case:
6
Style:
Other White And Red Dessert Wines
Grapes:
Garganega
Description:
Le Colombare from Pieropan is obtained from the shrivelled recie (ears in the Venetian dialect) of choice Garganega grapes, the top part of each bunch, with the ripest and best exposed berries. The bunches are laid out on traditional straw mats, in well aired rooms for a few months. In early spring, the semi-dried grapes are pressed, and the resulting juice is fermented and aged in oak barrels for two years. Intense gold, almost amber coloured, delicately reminiscent of exotic fruit and apricots on the nose, its initial impression on the palate is delicately sweet, a prelude to pleasing and unexpected aromatic complexity. Pieropan’s estate covers 30 hectares of vineyard, all of which are situated on the hills of the Soave Classico zone. The Pieropan family has been producing wines in Soave since the 1860s. Indeed, they were the first producer to bottle a wine with the name Soave on the label, in the early 1930s. Nino Pieropan took over from his father in 1970, and was the first to produce a single vineyard wine, Calvarino, in 1971. The Calvarino vineyard has been in the family since 1901.
