Cantina Valpantena Torre del Falasco Garganega Verona 2024
This wine is golden in colour, with a fresh perfume of acacia flowers and citrus fruit. The palate has rich mineral notes with lifted lemon zest on the finish. This wine has enough body to stand up to food while retaining a crisp, fresh quality that ensures it is also great on its own.
Grapes for the Garganega come from the vineyards surrounding the Verona hills, grown at 100-300 metres above sea level. These vines are Guyot and pergola trained and the soils are mainly marl and limestone.
This wine is made from fully ripe Garganega grapes picked slightly later than average. On arrival at the winery, the grapes were crushed, briefly cold soaked before pressing and cool fermentation (12-15°C), which took place in temperature-controlled stainless-steel tanks. The wine was then filtered before blending and bottling.
| RRP | £11.99 |
| Bottle size | 75cl |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Alcoholic strength | 13% |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Veneto |
| Grapes | Garganega 100% |
| Vegetarian | Yes |
| Vegan | Yes |
| Organic | No |
| Biodynamic | No |
| Closure | Screwcap |
Run by Luca Degani since 1995, the Cantina Valpantena is now one of Italy’s best co-operatives, with 700 hectares of vineyard that produce excellent quality fruit. Matt Thomson makes some of the Alpha Zeta wines here and has worked closely with them since 1999.
Known as the ‘valley of god’ to the ancient Greeks, the Valpantena is well known for its quality red wines, due partly to the limestone soils, but also because of the cool breeze that blows down the valley from the foothills of the Dolomites.
