Pieropan La Rocca Soave Classico 2023
Pieropan La Rocca Soave Classico 2023
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94+ pts The Wine Advocate
Drink Date: 2025 - 2036Celebrating its milestone 45th anniversary (1978–2023), the Pieropan 2023 Soave Classico La Rocca shines with golden intensity and offers a compelling bouquet that draws from both the character of Garganega and from careful oak aging. This 100% Garganega is aged in 500-liter French and Slavonian oak for 15 months. Varietal tones include stone fruit, preserved lemon and crushed oyster shell. Oak nuances of nutmeg and saffron add framing and depth. La Rocca is a five-hectare site with limestone soils, and 45,000 bottles were made. The Pieropan family knows its stuff. Happy anniversary. The Pieropan family recently completed a new Soave winery dedicated to patriarch Leonildo Pieropan and opened a wine Relais for guests. They have also started to experiment with mildew-resistant PIWI grapes now planted in a site above the winery. Published: Aug 14, 2025
La Rocca single-vineyard is situated on the slopes of Monte Rocchetta, behind the Medieval Castle which dominates the town of Soave. The vineyard benefits from a special microclimate which makes it possible to obtain a wine with a great personality, and a unique and unrepeatable bouquet. Innovative since it’s first release in 1978, it has made its mark in the area, becoming an undisputed symbol of quality and tradition.
Soil: Limestone rich in clay
Grape varieties: Garganega 100%
Average age of the vines: 10-50 years
Exposure: west
Training system: Spur pruned, cordon trained (5000 vines per hectare)
Agriculture methods: organic certified
ABV%: Vol. 13%
HARVEST Hand picked at the end of October, often in two times to select the ripest grapes, which have developed a little bit of botrytis.
VINIFICATION The grapes are destemmed, crushed and the wine is fermented in french oak tonneaux and big oak barrels.
MATURATION At the 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 aging.
