About this wine
Vineyard and terroir
Calvarino 5 comes from certified-organic Calvarino vineyards on Eocene volcanic soils rich in tuff and basalt. The vines are 30–60 years old, trained to traditional Pergola Veronese at 4,000 plants per hectare and pruned to eight buds per vine. The northwest-facing sites are given at 200–300 metres. Yield is 60 hl/ha.
Grapes
70% Garganega and 30% Trebbiano di Soave.
Vinification
Harvest is manual, often in two passes to select the ripest grapes. Trebbiano di Soave is picked from mid-September and Garganega in October. The fruit is destemmed and gently pressed pneumatically under nitrogen. Free-run musts ferment separately at 14–18°C in glass-lined concrete tanks.
Ageing
This cuvée unites five Calvarino vintages—2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The component wines matured on their fine lees in glass-lined concrete tanks for periods ranging from eight to 13 years. Collectively, they spent more than a decade in the cellar before being assembled. The blend was bottled in 2021 as a limited edition.
Technical data
Alcohol is 12.5% vol.
Vintage notes
The wine is deliberately multi-vintage rather than tied to a single harvest. Its five constituent vintages were combined to create a long-lived, rare expression of Calvarino.
Label / history
Calvarino 5 is the first release in the Vini dell’Anima collection. The project originated with Leonildo Pieropan and was developed with his sons Dario and Andrea.
