Description
Pieropan - La Rocca Soave Classico DOC 70cl
Winery: Pieropan
Grape Variety: Garganega, Trebbiano di Soave
Region: Soave Classico, Soave, Veneto, Italy
Alcohol Content: 13%
Classification: DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata)
Food Pairing: Excellent partner to match with complex dishes, even with strong flavours particularly risotto or fresh pasta swith porcini, duck meat sauce, truffle or squash. Second courses such as salmon, eel or scallops, or meats like roast veal in milk & mustard sauce, chicken stew, stuffed guinea fowl. Particularly suitable with ethnic cuisine.
Description: Hand picked at the end of October, often in two times to select the ripest grapes, which have developed a little bit of botrytis.
The grapes are destemmed, crushed and the wine is fermented in french oak tonneaux and big oak barrels.
e end of fermentation, the wine ages for around 15 months in French oak tonneaux and the 20-30% in Slavonian big barrels. During this period, the wine remains on the fine lees, where it acquires complexity and a rich bouquet. It is released after a few bottle ageing.
Colour is intense straw yellow, with golden nuances. Characterful wine. On the nose, reminiscent of exotic fruit, yellow peach and dry apricot, nuts and almond, sweet spices such as saffron, ginger powder, white pepper, honey and a light balsamicity. On the Palate warm, elegant, smooth and persistent.