EL RE RECIOTO

El Re Recioto — the King Recioto — is the pride of the Tenuta Solar winery: a dessert wine produced from the best Garganega bunches, selected with the same meticulous care that the estate brings to every aspect of its production, then allowed to wilt throughout the winter in the traditional drying rooms. Only in spring is the pressing done, yielding a truly delicious juice that after a year of ageing can make you enjoy a wine with a harmonious flavour.

The Recioto style is one of the oldest winemaking traditions in the Veneto — the sweet wine produced from partially dried Garganega grapes that predates the Amarone style of Valpolicella in its historical depth. The name derives from the Veronese dialect word recia, meaning ear — referring to the grape ears at the top of the cluster that receive the most sun and develop the highest sugar content, traditionally selected for Recioto production. At Tenuta Solar, the selection of the best bunches and the extended winter wilting period develop a concentration of aromatic intensity and natural sweetness that the spring pressing then captures.

The one year of ageing that follows the pressing allows the wine to develop the harmonic flavour that the estate describes as the reward for the patience invested in the production — a dessert wine of genuine complexity and genuine sweetness that the volcanic Garganega of Soave Classico achieves with a particular freshness and mineral clarity that heavier dessert wine styles from richer, more fertile soils cannot match.

El Re Recioto is a wine for the most meditative and most pleasurable moments of the table — for the aged cheese brought out with intention, for the almond pastry of the Veneto tradition, for the quiet pleasure of a wine that has waited through an entire winter to become what it is.

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