2014 Soave Classico La Rocca

The dean of all Soave producers, Leonildo Pieropan is simply one of Italy’s most gifted and knowledgeable winemakers. His Soave wines age remarkably well, handling fifteen-twenty years in a good cellar with ease (I recently tasted the 2002 La Rocca bottling, a wine made from an essentially miserable, rainy, vintage, and it was - sixteen years out - easily one of the three or four best Italian white wines I have tasted in some time). This year the different Pieropans wines I tasted showcased vintage differences remarkably well (especially the Calvarino) and confirmed, once again, that the grossly underrated 2014 vintage is simply an outstanding one for many Italian white wines.