CRITIC REVIEWS
Eric Guido
There’s something especially spicy and enticing about the 2021 Soave Classico Calvarino. White smoke and honeyed floral aromas give way to ground ginger and crushed green apples. It’s deeply textural, nearly oily, and young peach nuances swirl throughout. Residual acids keep you returning to the glass as zesty yellow citrus offsets liquid stone through the youthfully tense finale. This is an absolutely stunning performance for Calvarino, and as primary as it is today, I can’t help but pour another glass. The 2021 was matured entirely in glass-lined cement tanks for one year. The 2021 Calvarino is a powerful terroir representation.
JancisRobinson.com
A very balanced year, according to Andrea Pieropan, with a very warm August and September causing smaller berries, and much greater temperature differences between day and night than are usual for this region. The first vintage made in the new cellar. Fermented and aged in tulip-shaped, concrete tanks and kept at low temperature to prevent oxidation. Aged for 15 months on the lees. Certified organic by BIOS.Brilliant straw-yellow. Quite an aromatic nose of pear, acacia, and breadcrumbs from the lees. Lively and concentrated peach fruit with a lemony vein running through it. Finely textured. (WS)

