Garganega Verona IGT 2023 Tenuta la Cà

Garganega is the most unexpected wine in the Tenuta La Cà range, and perhaps the bravest. Garganega is the great white grape variety of Verona, the grape of Soave, Gambellara, and Recioto: extremely rare in Bardolino, and even rarer when vinified this way. Pietro and Aldo Giambenini cultivate it on a plot planted in 2006 on sandy-loam morainic soils, highly calcareous and rich in iron: a terroir that gives the grape a sharp minerality and a tension rarely found elsewhere. The choice to harvest at the end of October with overripe grapes is in itself a statement of intent: not a white wine to be drunk young and fresh, but a wine built on concentration and complexity. Fermentation takes place in acacia barriques, a neutral and delicate wood that preserves the fruit without imparting tannins, and the wine remains there for 18 months, slowly breathing until it reaches a balance that few white wines from this area can express. An "Essence," as the Giambenini brothers intend it: a plot, a soil, a grape, a wine.