The 2016 Range Life Garganega smells of custard, milk,
pear and lemon. It’s intriguing on the palate which is sure to keep you
interested because I found it practically undefinable but perhaps garnering
your attention precisely because of this. If anything, the palate is something
like the sea and a long summer. The Range Life website says the company grows
Italian grape varieties: ‘hard to pronounce but … easy to drink’. Go to the web
and here a range of pronunciations for Garganega. Range Life describe Garganega
as being between ‘Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay with flavours of creamy lemon
curd, fresh green herbs and zesty citrus’. Would I say that? I don’t know that
I’d compare it to Chardonnay, rather Vermentino at a pinch.
But I have to say that the
2017 Corte Caristar Soave is terrific. Cheaper and better. Bright, deep gold
in colour, it is genuinely lemon curdish in it perfume, and, on the palate, it
is a sheer delight, as if you could eat lemons straight and whole.
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