Recioto di Soave

Recioto di Soave is the sweet, dried-grape face of Garganega: a luscious golden passito from the hills east of Verona, made by air-drying the ripest bunches over winter to concentrate their sugar. Unctuous and honeyed with candied apricot, marzipan and almond, it is kept from cloying by Garganega's firm acidity, and in 1998 it became the first wine in the Veneto to be awarded DOCG status.