- 100% Garganega
- Certified Organic
- Salvarenza is a tiny sub-plot of the La Froscà Cru and home to the Gini’s centenarian vines, some of which are prephylloxera
- 150 meters above sea level
- South-east orientation
- Limestone-veined soil with thin tuff layers
- Hand-harvested at the end of October
- Fermented with ambient yeasts in oak cask. Malolactic fermentation and aging in oak
- Wine rests on its lees for 1 year in 25 hl barrels and used barriques
- Aged on the lees additional 6-8 months in small steel tanks
- Rests six months in bottle before release
- No sulfites are added to the grape must prior to fermentation; Sandro Gini was the first in Italy to try this method in 1985
- 800 cases produced each year on average
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2020
Country:
Italy
Region:
Veneto
Appellation:
Soave
Variety:
Garganega
Color:
White
Farming Practice:
Practicing Organic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | IT-GIN-21-20 | 12/750ml |
Press & Reviews
Decanter
Score
94
Date
2023-12-16
"From Garganega vines more than 100 years old in a small section of the La Froscà vineyard, this wine leads with aromas of jasmine, lemon meringue, hazelnut and baked apples. Excellent concentration and lively acidity, some very subtle wood notes along with golden apple and white peach, then a hint of ginger on the long finish. Beautiful overall harmony."
James Suckling
Score
95
Date
2023-04-26
"The oldest vines in all of Soave: pre-phylloxera centurions, many nearly 140-years-old. The vinosity, sap, mineral undercurrent and sheer persuasiveness of the package, attests to this. A tour de force. Sure, there is the usual crew of stone fruits, ginger crystal, jasmine, frangipani and sea spray salinity. Yet there is also textural persuasion, all chew and chomp, amidst a bowl of scented orchard fruits flecked with botrytised high tones of mango skin. Drinkable now, but best from 2024."
Vinous
Score
92
Date
2022-12-01
"The 2020 Soave Classico Contrada Salvarenza Vecchie Vigne opens slowly with a beautiful and nuanced bouquet that blends white flowers with young peach, hints of candied lime and sweet smoke. It,s silky and perfumed with a lovely inner sweetness contrasting saline minerals and lime-tinged orchard fruits. This tapers off with incredible length yet is poised, leaving spicy citrus and sweet herbal tones to resonate. The 2020 remains in a youthfully backward phase, yet it's developing beautifully with time in the bottle."
Wine and Spirits
Score
93
Date
2024-09-03
"This feels rich and fruit-driven, its golden apple and pear flavors wrapped around a core of chalky acidity. Delicate floral scents accent the flavors as the rich fruit tones linger on the finish."
Wine Spectator
Score
92
Date
2023-07-11
"This finely meshed white offers poached apricot, pineapple and tangerine fruit flavors that are rich, juicy and enlivened by zesty milled white pepper and pink grapefruit peel notes, which work in tandem with the bright acidity to provide fine balance. Long and minerally, with tactile hints of almond skin and chalk playing on the finish. Drink now through 2028.‡Alison Napjus"