Recioto di Soave is a sweet wine made from dried grapes, with Classico and sparkling styles.
Drying the grapes connects this sweet white wine to Soave’s vineyard landscape.
Garganega is the principal grape of Recioto di Soave. After harvest, selected grapes are left to dry before pressing. The vineyards belong to the Soave landscape near the Lessini hills, where much of the ground derives from basaltic rock. The wine’s identity brings together that vineyard setting and the patient transformation of the harvested grapes.
Selected harvested grapes are left to dry before pressing. Environmental-conditioning equipment may assist the appassimento, provided temperatures resemble those of traditional drying. The specification therefore allows controlled conditions as well as the traditional process; it does not require every producer to use one particular drying installation.
The grape zone includes whole or specified parts of municipalities in Verona province, among them Soave and Monteforte d’Alpone, within the detailed production boundary.
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