Pieropan Le Colombarde Recioto di Soave 2020 (50cl)

Pieropan Le Colombare Recioto di Soave 2020 (500 ml)

Veneto - Italy

James Suckling

S$87.00

Wine Fact

Wine Type: Sweet Wine

Grape Variety: 100% Garganega
Vintage: 2020
Aging Potential: Drink now
Serving Temperature: 12 ~ 14 °C
Alcohol Level: 13%
Size: 50cl

Country: Italy
Region: Veneto

A very traditional sweet wine made from dried grapes whose name derives from the shape of the carefully selected bunches of garganega grapes - ‘recie’ or ears. This is a long-standing family favourite and has been produced in the same way by generations of the Pieropan family.

This wine has an intense gold colour with perfumes of dried apricots and lightly toasted almonds. The Recioto di Soave has a perfectly balanced palate, with just the right level of delicate sweetness offset by fresh acidity. Lovely, rich, almost exotic fruit comes through on the palate, with a baked peach character and a long, perfumed finish.

This is a wonderful dessert wine perfect with almond-based dishes, simple pastries, fruit tarts and blue cheeses.

Tasting Note

Intense and deep golden yellow, with warm amber nuances.
Rich and intense, it has an appealing balsamic note on the nose, opening to a complex bouquet of ripe, tropical fruit, apricots in syrup, candied lime-peel roasted almonds and quince. Spicy, ethnic-sounding, with notes of turmeric, saffron and ginger powder. Sweet notes of honey, beeswax and barley candy. Amber and aromatic woods.
Warm, well-balnced, smooth and persistent. Surprisingly fresh-tasting and very elegant.