Gini

Soave Classico 'Salvarenza'

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:

Gini

Vintage:

2021

Country:

Italy

Region:

Veneto

Appellation:

Soave

Variety:

Garganega

Color:

White

Sizes Available

Full Bottle

IT-GIN-21-21

12/750ml

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Press & Reviews

James Suckling

Score

Date

2024-04-25

"The 2020 may have been considerably more concentrated than this vintage, and yet there is something more mellifluous, intuitive of feel and graceful to this 2021. A salty lead of preserved lemons, quince, tangerines and stone fruit. Incisive mineral precision and wet pebble complexity. This would make a worthy replacement for a top Chablis. Volcanic and alive. Scored on drinkability quotient. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold."

REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES

James Suckling

Score

Date

2021-11-01

Vinous

Score

Date

2021-02-23

Wine Enthusiast

Score

Date

2021-09-29

Vinous

Score

Date

2022-04-07

Decanter

Score

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

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

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 Spectator

Score

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"

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