Corte Adami, Recioto di Soave - Half-bottle 2018
Corte Adami, Recioto di Soave - Half-bottle 2018 is a luscious, full-bodied white from Garganega (Recioto di Soave, Italy), in the sweet and dessert wines style. Acidity is fresh; oak influence is none. Good with creamy pasta, seafood pasta, white fish, fruit dessert.
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Recioto di Soave is the original Soave — the sweet wine that predates the dry version by centuries, made by laying harvested Garganega bunches out to dry (the appassimento method) before a slow, arrested fermentation. Corte Adami's version is a lovely example of the style: luscious but never heavy, with amber-gold colour and the kind of concentrated stone fruit and honey character that comes from grapes given proper time to shrivel and concentrate. The acidity that makes Garganega such a pleasure in its dry form does sterling work here, holding everything in balance and making each sip feel refreshing rather than cloying. This is a half-bottle, which is exactly the right format for a wine this intense; generous for two but not overwhelming. Drink it with something salty, crumbly, and Italian.