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Video Transcript: Soave Showdown

Written By: ClassicWines.com Team on Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classicwines.com Soave Showdown; I am your host Brian Freedman. Today we will be tasting two of the most underappreciated white wines of Italy, Soave from the Veneto Region around Venice, which is made from the Garganega and Trebbiano di Soave grapes, try saying that quickly five times, I dare you after drinking the wine.

Now, Italian white wines, for a long time, had a pretty bad reputation, and this is probably because there wasn't a lot of great white wine coming out of Italy, but the truth is, like so much else coming out of the boot, white wines and especially Soave had taken leaps and bounds forward in terms of quality.

Our two wines today, we have the Allegrini Soave 2006 and we have the Pieropan Soave Classico 2006. Now let's get going here with wine number one, the Allegrini.

This has a notably sort of dark, colored like dull gold color and if we smell this, it's interesting; it doesn't smell like a heck of a lot which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I am getting a little bit of that almond, it's certainly a little bit citric on the nose, but that's about it. Good acid, little bit of a creaminess there in the mid-palate and finish.

Now I have to tell you, this isn't a terribly complex wine, it's not terribly nuanced one but it's well-made. It's very well balanced. This is the kind of thing that I would drink when you are waiting for company to show up, I would drink this when you have company there and if you are not so crazy about them but need something to drink. It's well made, it's simple, the price is right, absolutely nothing wrong with that bottle.

Wine number two is the Pieropan 2006 Soave Classico. It has a much more green color, it's much more pale than the Allegrini, and on the nose I am still getting that almond but it's little more bitter, little more raw almost, let's call it, sort of like white petaled flowers. This is little more interesting, there is a little more happening here.

Now this one has more structure to it. This wine I think is much more interesting, it's more complex. This is something that I would actually enjoy more with food. So while the Allegrini is certainly a good wine as aperitif let's say, I think Pieropan would offer us a wider range or pairing possibilities.

The winner of our Classicwines.com Soave Showdown then is the Pieropan 2006 Soave Classico. Remember both of these wines are available on Classicwines.com. I am your host Brian Freedman. Till next time, cheers.

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Wines Featured In Video Transcript: Soave Showdown

Allegrini 2006 Soave
Region: Soave

  

Pieropan 2006 Soave (doc)
Region: Soave Classico

  

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