94+ Monica Larner - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"This wine celebrates its 45th anniversary (1971-2016) with this vintage. The 2016 Soave Classico Calvarino (a blend of 70% Garganega and 30% Trebbiano di Soave) is a beautifully bountiful and exuberant wine that bursts forward with stone and exotic fruit, with crushed oyster shell at the back. The wine delivers abundant complexity and depth, and this puts it into a category of its own as far as Italian white wines are concerned. Some 55,000 bottles were made."

94 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

"Cool and herbal with great vitality and delicacy, as well as the distinctive, rich and complex texture of high-end Soave. Then comes a lime-zest freshness at the long finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold."

93 Wine & Spirits

"The 2016 growing season in Soave Classico was long and moderately warm, allowing the thick skins of the garganega grapes to ripen fully as they hung on the vines well into October. This wine flaunts that ripeness in tropical notes of pineapple that mingle with flavors of Bartlett pear and golden apple. Hints of white smoke, salt and crushed rock emerge as the wine opens, revealing the characteristic minerality of this volcanic site. The wine finishes on an upward trajectory, energized by a wash of lemony acidity."