Le Rive

Le rive is a wine that should be accompanied by faint candlelight on a laid table, or with a crackling open fire as a companion for reading. The overripe garganega and the long ageing period give it a full body that seduces the senses and a warm colour that lightly brushes your thoughts.

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Le Rive

bianco veronese IGT
100% garganega

Colour: intense yellow with golden reflections.
Nose: ripe yellow fruits, candied citrus fruits and sweet spices are combined with marine puffs and smoky notes.
Palate: ample and elegant. Very long savory and mineral persistence.
Serving temperature: 13/14 °C

First year of production: 1992
Harvest: manual in box at the end of October
Maturation material: large oak barrels
Alcohol content: 13,50% Vol.

Data sheet

VINEYARD

We harvest the grapes for this wine in a small plot of about one hectare facing south and belonging to the u.g.a. Fittà. It is located at an altitude of about 260 meters and is composed of a soil of clear volcanic origin with a clayey-silty texture.
The vineyard is characterized by a steep slope (45%), the dialectal term "rive" in fact indicates a particularly steep terrain.

VINIFICATION

Alcoholic fermentation: in large oak barrels (25 hl)
Duration of alcoholic fermentation: 20 days
Alcoholic fermentation temperature: 15-18 °C
Malolactic fermentation: spontaneous in large barrels
Maturation: in large barrels for 15 months in contact with its fine lees without any decanting
Filtration: only one membrane filtration before bottling
Refinement: 12 months in the bottle

BEST WITH

Le Rive loves intense flavors. Excellent with roast white meat or raw meat, it goes very well even with the spiciest ethnic cuisines.
It accompanies also fatty fish and aged cheeses, and all those dishes that manage to combine sapidity and a touch of sweetness.