I've drunk... sorry, tasted this wine from various vintages recently. Going from the 1993 through to the most recent 2006 whilst in Italy, I thought I should look back at it in the cold light of day at my flat. Instead of being sat around a table in a wonderful Italian building, with a group of fellow wine enthusiasts, I was sat at home, washing drying in my living room, with a chicken salad watching the ten o'clock news....
The 2005 Soave Pieropan La Rocca from Pieropan is brilliant. Period. Buttercups, a little sherbert lemon and a smidgen of butter from the nose. This oaked wine then has a nice, minerally stoney palate with a bit of whisky to it and a little lychee, but without the sweetness. A hint of ginger comes through on the finish. It is a brilliant wine. 8.5/10
The 2005 Soave Pieropan La Rocca from Pieropan is brilliant. Period. Buttercups, a little sherbert lemon and a smidgen of butter from the nose. This oaked wine then has a nice, minerally stoney palate with a bit of whisky to it and a little lychee, but without the sweetness. A hint of ginger comes through on the finish. It is a brilliant wine. 8.5/10
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